Offside Musings

sunnews14th March 2017
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Obumselu, Onukaba: Darkness falls twice

I awoke a week ago to an email from C.Don Adinuba, one of my closest and most long lasting friends.…
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sunnews28th February 2017
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Meeting a man who fed Biafrans

One of the fortunes of my frequent travels is that I meet fascinating people at different locations, even when I…
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sunnews21st February 2017
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Biafra, Rochas Okorocha and crisis of leadership

I believe that the frenzied quest by disaffected Igbo youth for Biafra represents, above all, an indictment of the kind…
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sunnews14th February 2017
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A humane proposal for Buhari: Resign

There’s a chance that President Muhammadu Buhari would have come back to Nigeria by the time you read this column,…
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sunnews7th February 2017
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Epistle from St. James to fellow steakholders

Brothers and sisters, if you are or have ever been a local government councilor or chairman, a commissioner, a special…
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sunnews31st January 2017
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Buhari, Patience Jonathan, and Theresa May

On January 21, I was having drinks and talking literature with some friends at 805 Restaurant in old Kent Road,…
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sunnews24th January 2017
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Quarantined food and other absurdities

I have argued before that the Nigerian state appears organised around the principle of inflicting maximum emotional aggravation and, often,…
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sunnews17th January 2017
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Sorry, but my country is ugly

I’ve known for a while that Nigeria was in sorry shape, but not even that knowledge prepared me for a…
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sunnews3rd January 2017
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365 days of urgency

One of the rituals of my childhood was writing down New Year resolutions. Under instruction from our parents, my siblings…
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sunnews27th December 2016
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Buhari, call off Customs’ siege on Igbo traders

A few days ago, a friend sent me a video of a choir made up of members of Nigeria’s security…
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