Nigerian Tribune private scandals despite government attempts at suppression. General Ibrahim Babangida once said that of all the Nigerian newspapers he would only read and take seriously the "Nigerian Tribune's" editorial column. The book "Leadership Failure and Nigeria's Fading Hopes" by Femi Okurounmu consists of excerpts from a weekly column in the Nigerian Tribune published between 2004 and 2009. The author, a patriotic Nigerian elder statesman, laments how the corruption and the selfishness of successive leaders has destroyed the hopes not just of Nigerians, but of the entire black race. In December 2008 Segun Olatunji, managing director and Editor-in-Chief of "Nigerian Tribune",
Nigerian Americans hat). In the Igbo tradition, the men's cultural attire is "Isiagu" (a patterned shirt), which is worn with trousers and the traditional Igbo men's hat called "Okpu Agwu". The women wear a puffed sleeved blouse, two wrappers and a headwrap. Hausa men wear "barbarigas" or "kaftans" (long flowing gowns) with tall decorated hats. The women wear wrappers and shirts and cover their heads with "hijabs" (veils). Among Nigerian Americans, traditional Nigerian attire remains very popular. However, because the fabric is often hard to acquire outside of Nigeria, traditional attire is not worn on an everyday basis but rather, reserved for