A policy direction is on the table of the Nigerian governments, particularly the federal level and the power elite on how to move from the current stalemate, most manifest in a week of mass... Read more
Ahead of a heavily pregnant week in Nigeria, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is, at last, in a position to openly criticise President Tinubu and the subject matter over which Soyinka, otherwise... Read more
Her name must be somewhere at the top on the list of such people in Nigeria’s agentian geopolitics if such is a functional component of Nigeria’s diplomacy. She would be so considered not be... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura We’ve just watched the 100 metres Olympic women’s final. We have a new champion—Julien Alfred, from the tiny island of St. Lucia (with a population of 180,000). It was a spe... Read more
It is just two African countries out of over 50 others – Kenya and Nigeria – that are exploding for reasons that, in the last instance, stem from disciplinary neoliberalism supe... Read more
By evening of August 3rd, 2024, it would have been six years since Nasarawa State University, Keffi’s Professor Ochinya Ojiji, died without manifesting any ailments. That night in 2018, he l... Read more
Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more
Nigeria remained shut throughout on August 1st, 2024, the first of a 10-day popular action against bad governance. It marks the spilling over to the streets of deep fissures bordering on irr... Read more
It is a few hours to the start of the drama on August 1st, 2024. The expectation that Nigeria’s President Tinubu will make a major concession to the build-up against the regime before mid-ni... Read more
By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Again, on destiny. As I remarked in an earlier tribute, destiny is a kind of gatekeeper that determines a lot of things, especially from the angle of those who believ... Read more
