“It is true that modernisation bombarded our tradition, but like an ancient fortress built to withstand fierce military onslaughts, our living tradition and custom have remained a pivot whic... Read more
It is the 56th year of Nigeria’s independence today and political leaders are assuring of an end to the economic recession the country is going through. In spite of open hiccups within the r... Read more
Fewer and fewer statements concerning inclusion of poor people into the economy are heard nowadays in Nigeria. Instead of such statements, the society is served a menu of very obvious... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA In the first part yesterday, Bayero University, Kano’s Professor Ibrahim Bello-Kano argued that Nigeria is finally arriving at the destination that what he identifies as a ce... Read more
By Okello Oculi Reading the interview Bishop Hassan Kukah gave to Africa Confidential – and reprinted in Intervention online recently, – one gets a sense of his intellectual sol... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA Nigeria is, indeed, at war. It is the kind of ‘war’ imagined in Eedris Abdulkareem’s musical number ‘Jaga Jaga’ and in which the society is decentred. The songster’s l... Read more
In Nigeria, whether to sell existing stock of national assets or not has been the debate for the past thirty or more years since the Ibrahim Babangida regime started it all in 1985. In 2016,... Read more
By Professor Okello Oculi A neo-comic news item telecast by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network News showed two elderly American businessmen – wrapped in locally woven Tiv... Read more
Division on whether to sell or not to sell state assets as a way of handling recession in Nigeria has divided the nation starkly between those for and those against. It is a completely new t... Read more
