Category Archives: Nigeria

Should Nigeria Break Up?

Sola Odunfa, Nigerian journalist, writes in an article on the BBC website: I often ask myself: Should Nigeria break up, how many countries will it produce? I am not aware that any three of its more than 200 ethnic groups sincerely agree so much as to come together in a peaceful independent state. There is… Read More »

Nigerian Internet slangs

1. LWKM – Laugh wan kill me 2. LWKMD – Laugh wan kill me die 3. MIDG – make i dey go 4. WGYL – we go yarn later 5. IGA – I gbadun am 6. ICS – I can’t shout 7. DJM – Don’t jealous me 8. WBDM – Who born d maga 9.… Read More »

Thoughtful editorial on the Central Bank of Nigeria and Nigerian banks

I was just thinking of writing a column on the new term limit imposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria on bank CEOs when I saw this thoughtful Next editorial: Is the CBN too powerful? In the national confusion over our president who has vanished into thin air, a significant but little remarked event occurred… Read More »

Chinua Achebe on what Nigeria means to him

Our 1960 national anthem, given to us as a parting gift by a British housewife in England, had called Nigeria “our sovereign motherland”. The current anthem, put together by a committee of Nigerian intellectuals and actually worse than the first one, invokes the father image. But it has occurred to me that Nigeria is neither… Read More »

Absentee President Update: Court orders cabinet to decide on Nigerian president’s fitness

The courts have given the Nigerian cabinet 14 days to determine whether the president is fit to lead the country. You might recall that the president has been away from the country on treatment for close to two months. From Reuters: Judge Dan Abutu ordered the cabinet to pass a resolution on Yar’Adua’s fitness within… Read More »