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There’s nothing more exasperating than to listen to Nigerians, especially public officials or their hirelings, who insist that our country is a coherent entity. These official apologists are quick to euphemize Nigeria’s myriad crises as mere teething problems.

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Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

Books, like one's children, have a way of growing up rather fast. In the process, they spring surprises on their unsuspecting parent!

One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague.

In a country of more than a hundred and fifty million people, the self-styled party of change is apparently unable to find any governorship aspirant untouched by scandal or the appearance of it.

I wish we were a country where universal objection to corruption was the norm. We are far, very far from that.

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