by Chude Jideonwo Think of it: what right do people who work in our telecoms industry have to accuse Nollywood of mediocrity? When you think of Nigeria in that log-in-your-eye…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Aren’t all of us – Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hinduists, whatever we are – ashamed that this is the God that we present to the world? Aren’t we…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo In building the Nigeria which we all want, we will need to begin to wrestle these questions; and we will need to engage its complexity. The result…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Broadly, the critics are right – much of the conversation among young people is neither purposive nor constructive; many of the people leading this anger movement are…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo The more I think of him, the more I imagine a man who would never raise his voice (a weakness of mine as evidenced by the exclamations…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo The thing is, nations are not changed by the innocent and the unscarred, and people who have an unblemished record. Nations are changed by people with the…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Government in Nigeria is too comfortable, too lavish, too affluent, too wasteful, too obese; and under these circumstances, it does not lend itself to reason or reasonableness.…
Read MoreWe must always remember that in Nigeria, because it can be so easy for one to lose one’s way; our challenge is clear - we need to drastically reduce the…
Read MoreSo she set a new standard for public office; she took a problem and decided she wasn’t going to stop until it was solved – even if her life was…
Read MoreGovernment is the singular most important force for change in any society – print that and paste it on your door if you really want to do something to change…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo ...in the absence of large-scale revolutionary change, the kind that Nigeria’s dream about but which will not find root here mostly because we have a legitimate, democratic…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Just remembering those heady times, and the excitement of change, the voices that came together, and the unshakeable faith that it spoke of warms my spirit. Today,…
Read MoreMaybe the nation’s thought leaders should instead ask themselves: why haven’t we yet told a coherent tale; one that has a mass appeal and that can drive a national movement?…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Government is the most important force for change in any society so ultimately to make any sustainable change, you have to have people in this imperfect, impossible…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Chude Jideonwo How did it turn out, for instance, that Lamidi Adedibu was making leadership and governance decisions for the likes of your parents and mine in…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Chude Jideonwo I am very proud of what Nigerians achieved this time last year, when we came together to fight an unreasonable government policy of fuel subsidy…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo We have to resist those who refuse to be reasonable and constructive, or who are satisfied with the pulpit to grandstand, to say enough is enough to…
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