It is a fairly known joke in Nigerian newsrooms that only the late Dr Stanley Macebuh was used to editing Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, contrary to Soyinka’s standing order against trifling... Read more
While there’s an urgent need to improve productivity, emphasis should be laid on ridding the food systems of inequality, argues this author in this piece originally published in African Argu... Read more
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife don and the 2023 Gwer East/Gwer West National Assembly hopeful, Dr. Awuawuer Tijime Justin, is stepping out for 2023 with a hearty congratulation to Dr. I... Read more
Although the Toyin Falola Interview series preceded this moment, Prof Attahiru Jega’s impending appearance in that series December 12th, 2021 is bound to trigger or reinforce, as the case ma... Read more
“Democracy, the world over, faces intractable challenges that threaten the fundamental freedoms and the promise of development that were once considered the key signposts of democracy. In Af... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki This essay intends to assess the current leadership in Borno State of Nigeria, where unsettling events have been going on for twelve years or so, which when applied... Read more
The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) appears set to reverse the historical trend whereby members of the intelligentsia who operate in the spaces for articulating the Niger... Read more
An African social critic, Ahmed Olayinka Sule, is on the neck of the London based weekly, The Economist for its insinuations of deficit reporting of Covid-19 figures on the continent. This i... Read more
Flashback to Coolum in Australia in February 2002 where the Commonwealth Heads of Government were meeting. There were tricycles everywhere, transporting even the presidents, prime ministers,... Read more
15 years after it was warned of the CNNising and Coca-colanising impacts of globalisation, the Idoma intelligentsia has tasked itself with a programme of writing Idoma. In other words, they... Read more
