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January 30, 2014

Elnathan John: Why I hate people who complain

by Elnathan John And it is in this light that I agree with Chief Edwin Clarke who said recently that ...

January 26, 2014

Elnathan John: When she insists on paying the bills

by Elnathan John Suddenly the staring eyes feel like tooth picks in your side and you want to disappear. It ...

January 22, 2014

Elnathan John: One long New Year’s day (A short story)

by Elnathan John Now every time you try to use the microwave, you think of cancer and malignant tumors taking ...

January 19, 2014

Elnathan John: Once upon a mob action in Abuja

by Elnathan John As you head home, you realize how foolish it all was, your jumping in to shield him. ...

January 14, 2014

Elnathan John: Why I decided to forgive Stella Oduah

by Elnathan John And citizens wont blame you if the economy crashes. They will blame the president. Everything is the ...

January 11, 2014

Elnathan John: Dear Gabriel, I am sorry that you’re gone

by Elnathan John I would commit murder if I was sure which of my father’s brothers led the masked men- ...

January 7, 2014

Elnathan John: Why I’m number 6 on the Presidential sniper list

by Elnathan John I think I know now why the President doesn’t respond to my WhatsApp messages. He looks down ...

December 30, 2013

Elnathan John: What I’ll do to OBJ when I become president

by Elnathan John Looking through the 2014 budget, I discovered that over 830million will be used by the Federal Government ...

December 22, 2013

Elnathan John: Before it is too late – An open letter from the next President to the incumbent

by Elnathan John Do you see what is happening in the House of Representatives? APC now has a majority. But ...

December 16, 2013

Elnathan John: What I learnt from OBJ’s letter to Jonathan

by Elnathan John As someone who will soon be president, I am ashamed of Obasanjo’s letterhead. It looked like something ...

December 13, 2013

Elnathan John: This is how to be an African writer

by Elnathan John An African writer must love rights. Human rights. Womens rights. Gay rights. Animal rights. In that order. ...

October 13, 2013

Elnathan John: How to die in Nigeria

by Elnathan John One way to die is to ensure that in life, you did something worth remembering. This action ...

September 28, 2013

Elnathan John: Harmless people with license to kill

by Elnathan John The air is fresh and cool. One day you will climb one of these grass covered hills. ...

September 9, 2013

Elnathan John: Confusion in the camp of the enemy

by Elnathan John Farouk Lawan tweeted on Tuesday that “the New PDP is committed to rescuing our dear country from ...

September 2, 2013

Elnathan John: Holy war and the return of Danbaba Suntai

by Elnathan John Listening to Suntai, I totally agree that he is fit for work and that his capacity to ...

August 20, 2013

Elnathan John: Quit complaining about church donations, heaven does not come cheap

by Elnathan John But if a man is offering spaces in heaven where the roads are paved and there is ...

August 14, 2013

Elnathan John: About Femi Fani-Kayode’s ‘bitter truth’

by Elnathan John My opinion in this matter is simple. A Lagosian as a social term is any Nigerian citizen ...

August 10, 2013

Elnathan John: New parties and free elections in 2015

by Elnathan John It is also encouraging seeing the names showing up on the APC train: IBB, Ahmed ‘13’ Yerima, ...

July 16, 2013

SK Johnson on Chimamanda Adichie, her ‘boys’ and the Caine Prize

I’m not even sure why I’m typing this because there have been a flurry of blog posts and articles ...

July 15, 2013

Elnathan John lets go on Chimamanda: “The consequences of loving Ngozi”

by Elnathan John When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, darling of the world, chooses to, well, refer to Caine Prize nominee Elnathan ...

July 15, 2013

Collins Uma: What an eventful week in the life of Nigeria

by Collins Uma Sunday came with the news of George Zimmerman being found not guilty of the murder of Trayvon ...

July 9, 2013

Nigeria’s Tope Folarin wins Caine writing prize

by Isi Esene Tope Folarin, a US based Nigerian has won this year’s Caine Prize for African Writing. Folarin was ...

June 9, 2013

Elnathan John: The secret files of a governor’s sex life

by Elnathan John Questions arising from this include: Why would you allow your craving for a kiss make you violently ...

May 27, 2013

“I wasn’t expecting the Caine Prize nomination” – Elnathan John speaks on ‘Conversations with Mercy Abang’

The Conversations series withAbang Mercy Interviews one of the shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing which ...

May 16, 2013

One of our own: Elnathan John, 3 other Nigerians nominated for Caine Prize

by Rachel Ogbu A Sunday Trust literary journalist, a YNaija contributor (yes, success has many fathers!) and others have both ...

May 12, 2013

Opinion: Since when did Dokubo Asari become an ex-militant?

by Elnathan John What I have a problem with is that some people, journalists included, insist on calling him an ex-militant. ...

November 12, 2012

Elnathan John: How to leave the stage

This is how to leave the stage. When you are still loved, sometime before you are chased off with boos ...

October 26, 2012

Elnathan John: How to run a Nigerian NGO

by Elnathan John Do one of two things: One, give your NGO a broad name that can cover two or ...

September 27, 2012

Elnathan John: How to show Nigerian love

But lovers need to learn: A thousand words cannot work the magic of one pot of egusi soup, complete with ...

September 14, 2012

Elnathan John: How to be a Nigerian mechanic

If you finish fixing a car in the evening, never call the owner. Try all you can to make the ...

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