Chude Jideonwo: NO – You DON’T Get To Give Up On Nigeria
I would be dishonest if I said I didn’t expect that my last piece to have some effect, but I certainly didn’t anticipate the intensity of the connection; people who felt exactly the same way, who thought someone had reached deep into their hearts and retrieved their anger, and their disappointment, and their sadness. It […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office Of The Citizen – If We Want To Change Our Country, We Have 15 Lessons To Learn From BBOG (1)
You know the tragedy already. The world does. And it’s one we have yet to recover from: 276 Chibok girls kidnapped from their schools under the watch of a functioning Nigerian government, and just under 200 of them yet to be recovered as we speak. Now, this is the point at which many of us […]
The Argument Against Soft Landing for Corrupt Public Officers – Japheth Omojuwa
The incoming Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo recently said that Nigeria was indebted by as much as $60 billion. To put it in stark perspective, we have never owed this much as a country. When you put this fact against our depleted foreign reserve – the lowest in a decade – and the Excess Crude Account […]