“Gentlemen, the vote is 11 to 1 and 1 has it”. That is the iconic statement credited to Abraham Lincoln to his cabinet on a policy issue that is now used as the all time demonstration of the... Read more
In spite of the mindset of politicians, democracy has come to stay in Nigeria, says Prof Attahiru Jega under whose leadership the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) pulled thr... Read more
Cordiality among Christian and Muslim leaders is not percolating to the folks downstairs as to stop violence between religious groups in the country because such is not part of their collect... Read more
China is going through a complicated process of social transformation in which state intervention in the economy has brought about global scale prosperity but along with corruption, self-enr... Read more
Without blaming any individuals but merely illustrating the gulf between academia and governance or theory and practice in Nigeria, Prof Yakubu Ochefu who is at the centre of on-going conver... Read more
In a world grudgingly moving from the unipolar moment to an uncharted polycentrism, the gathering of the cream of Nigerian Historians this morning in Makurdi, the Benue State capital is an e... Read more
No one outside that small circle of powerful operatives in the existing global order might know what exactly is up. It is possible there has emerged a consensus among those who must be consu... Read more
Dr Mercy Ette, a former reporter with the now defunct Newswatch but who has since successfully crossed over from journalism into academia has published a journal article implicating the Nige... Read more
By Prof Maurice Amutabi* * Maurice Amutabi, the author of this piece extracted from the Pan-Africanist Pambazuka Online, (20/10/2017) is a Professor of History, Fulbright Scholar and Vice C... Read more
The gists from Kenya are unsettling. The repeat of the Presidential polls annulled by the country’s Supreme Court last September 1st, 2017 is a matter of days away. But the opposition... Read more
