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A Culture of Low Expectations, By Okey Ndibe
Okey NdibeOne of the most tragic aspects of Nigeria’s aborted promise is that too many Nigerians have now imbibed a terrible culture of low expectations. They look daily at the series of crises...
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As Anambra Goes… By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe Anambra is set, it appears, to act as dress rehearsal for Nigeria’s next round of general elections in 2015. For some inexplicable reason, the state’s political experience holds up a mirror...
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Old PDP, New PDP, Same PDP, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe If you wanted proof that Nigeria is bereft of hope, look no further than this fact: that, on the Internet and elsewhere, many Nigerians have gone heady with celebration of the schism in the...
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A Parable of Brainless Leaders, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe There’s this apocryphal story that a friend of mine, an exiled Zimbabwean writer, told me a few years ago. It went like this. President Robert Mugabe had sent one of his ministers to...
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Kofi Awoonor: A Macabre Finale, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe On the night of Saturday, September 21, 2013, I found myself talking admiringly about Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor, the Ghanaian poet, novelist, literary scholar, diplomat and teacher...
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Muslims, Stand Up to Be Counted! By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe It’s time all decent Muslims woke up and realized that their faith is under an enormous siege. Extremist groups like al Qaeda, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab, which wear the veneer of the...
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To Speak Or Not To Speak, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe I used to believe that Nigerians who reside abroad – especially those in North America, Europe and the UK – were, on the whole, more likely than their home-based fellows to act as catalysts...
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The Curse of Foreign Rulers, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe Last week, I tried to sketch out the minor, desultory drama that culminated in my failing to speak at a convention of the Anambra State Association-USA in Tampa, Florida. Had I spoken, my...
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Beyond Oduah-gate, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe For all of two weeks, Nigerians have been riveted by the disheartening revelation that Aviation Minister Stella Oduah approved the purchase of two bullet-proof BMW cars at the cost of $1.6...
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Gear In Reverse, “Going Forward”, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe There’s a relationship between the quality of a people’s imagination – their dream of themselves – and their material condition. It’s possible to say, show me what and how a people think...
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INEC’s Awful Outing In Anambra, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe I’m writing this piece first thing on Sunday morning, so I don’t know yet which candidate and party won – by fair or foul means – the governorship election in my home state of Anambra. But...
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What Anambra Says, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe Numerous political pundits stipulated that the recent governorship election in Anambra would serve as a gauge of things to come in the 2015 general elections. Anambra, these pundits...
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Iyabo Obasanjo’s Mirror, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe Odds are that Iyabo Obasanjo is at peace with herself, after pouring out her soul. She must have her own faults, perhaps even grievous ones, but her letter was an act of courage Trust some...
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Nigerians Yawn Over Missing Billions By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe On December 9 and 10, several websites and newspapers published a startling letter that Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had written to President Goodluck...
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Billionaire House Helps, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe Nigeria’s (misnamed) Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the schedule for the 2015 set of general “elections.” The presidential and National Assembly “elections”...
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The Shape of Things To Come? By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State. The conversations have focused on the local government election held in the...
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Besieged by the Police By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe President Goodluck Jonathan is notorious for moving at slower than the speed of a snail when called upon to address issues that rather demand alacrity. Yet, Nigerians are besieged by a...
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A National Insult Rejected, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe For those unaware of its source, I might as well state from the outset that the title of this column is not original. It’s adapted from a statement released last week by Wole Soyinka. The...
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Okay, Here Are Some Answers, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe I’m often taken aback when some of my Nigerian readers respond to my column by noting a failure to offer solutions. These fairly frequent responses are stated as complaints. It’s as if...
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The Example of Lateef Jakande, By Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe One of my most revered friends rang me a few days ago after reading last week’s column. He wanted, first, to echo my criticism of Nigeria’s public officials who, despite loud claims to...
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