Tag: Okey Ndibe
PhD Truck Drivers And The Urgency Of Now by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Last week was a rather sobering one for Nigeria. The country marked its 56th anniversary, an altogether…
Nigeria Should “Boycott” Future Olympics by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Nigeria went to Rio, Brazil and, as the world looked on, gave a thoroughly embarrassing account of…
The Theology and Ideology of Nigerian violence by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Two curious events took place last week. In one, the leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq…
Padded Budget, Padded Change by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe I have often argued that the Nigerian state is, at bottom, a criminal enterprise, organized to serve…
Fayose And Nigeria’s Immunity Scandal by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has a solid claim to the title of politician par…
The unbearable cost of political foolishness by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe I have written before about the profound pain that attaches to the vocation of commenting regularly on…
The Revolt Of Mandela’s Grandchildren by Okey Ndibe
South Africa is in the midst—some would say the very incipient stage—of a major political and cultural revolt. One of…
Nigeria’s strange business of corpses by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to be Nigeria’s growing industry of making and exhibiting…
Nigeria’s Savaged Poor by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Before the 2015 presidential election, Candidate Muhammadu Buhari essentially advertised himself as a magician. Even though oil…
Can Nigeria Be Crushed Into Shape? by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari…
Herdsmen, Actions And Consequences by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Last week, alleged herdsmen armed with rapid-fire guns and machetes descended on the Ukpabi Nimbo community in…
A manual for Nigeria’s low and medium scale criminals by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe If you happen to know any Nigerian armed robber, pickpocket, small-time con artist, low-level 419-er or participant…
The Small Things That Spell Big Failures by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Last Wednesday, I got a phone call from a reporter at one of Italy’s major newspapers, la…
Thinking Of Tomorrow Today by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Nigeria’s political discourse is stuck, rather tragically, in a familiar binary pattern. On one side, there are…
Politics And Rivers Of Blood by Okey Ndibe
By Okey Ndibe Last Saturday, voters in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State cast their votes in a rerun election to choose…