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President Jonathan has said that corruption in Nigeria is exaggerated. In the eternal words of William Shakespeare, if it were so, it was a grievous fault on the part of those Americans who pointed it out. And grievously have those Americans answered it. For the purpose of simplifying this argument, let us forget everything that happened when Goodluck Jonathan was ...

My knee ached so badly that I thought a nerve had ruptured. I quietly got up and sat on my hotel bed. My cousin’s pastor, who had been referring to himself as my pastor too, did not notice. Sweat ran down his face as he prayed with so much vigor that it felt as if he was physically pulling the ...

By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo Last Tuesday, February 26th, was my birthday. After the traditional Happy Birthday song, Ijeamaka, my four-year-old daughter, asked me how old I was. It was a tricky question. The last time we went through that one year ago, we agreed I was a seven-year-old. It made sense to Ijeamaka because it kept my age close to ...

The first sentence in Janet Malcolm’s book, “The Journalist and the Murderer” states: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” If you have been following this page in the last few weeks you will agree that I deserve a pardon, too, ...

Somehow I was taken aback by the somber posturing of Africans on the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. It took a while before I understood what Chavez meant to many people living today in Africa and other Third World countries. It happens that Chavez was to them what Gaddafi was to me living in the 80s Africa. As kids ...