Commentary

Which Gods Must Be Appeased? By Okey Ndibe
Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values...

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Which Gods Must Be Appeased? By Okey Ndibe
Modern Nigeria’s crisis, I suggest, is primarily a crisis of values. In Umuofia, Okonkwo may give vent to unruly deportment, but his community is also equipped with the coercive instrument for...
Where Did David Mark Get the Funds for His Private University? By Pius Adesanmi
(to the accompaniment of Fela’s “Just Like That”)
Hard View: State Of Emergency To Slate The Insurgency By Hannatu Musawa
So after much deliberation and rigmarole, after much dissent by leading sectors of Nigerians, after the massacres and nauseating murders of men, women and children, the government has finally...
Why Prof. Ango Abdullahi Flunked His Test By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
There are elders and there are elders. Prof. Ango Abdullahi is not an elder. A real elder does not pursue a rat while his house is on fire.
Paying The Police A Livable Minimum Wage By Ogaga Ifowodo
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, wants to raise the entry point salary in the force from N28,000 to N100,000. He is proposing the increase as part of his effort to reform a...
From “Village” Ethics To A Moral No-Man’s Land By Okey Ndibe
One of the enduring lessons in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is that the ethical interests of the Umuofia community assert themselves, again and again, over the overweening pride and impulsive...

Perceptor Blog

PERCEPTOR 38: Questions On Arik’s ‘Fly the Sweaty...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
PERCEPTOR 37: Arithmetic 101 a.k.a. Mathematics...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
PERCEPTOR 36: 5 Questions On The Roforofo In The...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)
Perceptor’s Guide to Political Parties: How To...
These days Perceptor hardly has any questions at all.  It isn’t so much (ahem,) that Perceptor knows everything … (surely not, you cry!)
Perceptor: 4 Questions On The Questions That...
“By doubting we come to question, and by questioning, we perceive the truth.” (Peter Abelard, 1079-1142)

Articles

Chinua Achebe (Ugonabo Ogidi ) Goes Home By Joe...
All roads lead to Ogidi in Anambra State, Nigeria the home town of the late (Ugonabo) Professor Chinua Achebe on Wednesday May 23 2013 for the sage’s final burial. People from all walks of life...
Nigeria Must Get Real About Its Oil By Mohammed...
The ultimate goal of every benign government, especially of countries so categorised as ‘developing’, and so intended for a keen march into 21st century modernity is to adopt global best...
Chinua Achebe As Metaphor By Ugorji O. Ugorji, Ed...
When I was coming of age in my part of the African continent, I was oriented to four major metaphors for what my environment considered most important in our social discuss.
Achebe And The Quest For Nobel Prize By Vincent...
The controversies that trailed Prof. Achebe’s last book—There Was a Country: A Personal History Of Biafra—came from different perspectives. While some people saw the book as one...
“Nigeria Will Become History …” Nigeria Is...
Melford Dokubo Goodhead Jr., now known as Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo recently set the Nigerian media world literally ablaze at a press conference.

Blog Entries

Nigerian Presidential Debate - GEJ Making Lame...
Nigeria is a bundle of contradictions - a fertile ground for eternal belief in democracy, where all hopes for democractic progress go to die. It has even been said in "respectable" quarters...
Soyinka's Poem On Racism
Happy Birthday Prof. Wole Soyinka: In celebration of your wit and literary mischief, I am hereby reproducing, what I personally regard as your best poem, "Telephone conversation".
Nigeria: Donald Duke. An Eureka moment? (S)...
Donald Duke - a former state governor in Nigeria used to intrigue me. Intrigue in the context that I know so little of him not having visited Cross Rivers, or in fact anywhere in the East beyond...
Felasophical Views On Femi Kuti – Broadway...
A basic Aikido philosophy states that the strength  is not in muscular force, but in flexibility, timing, control and modesty, its humanitarian purpose is to purify one’s aggressive...
In Nigeria It’s Networking Not Butt-Licking Duhh !
History demands that we record dates when life on the planet suffer grave setbacks, and I’m still struggling to recover the day the holy trinity of dignity, pride and honour fell off the...