By Ambassador Usman Sarki Understanding the drivers of Nigeria’s foreign policy and the determinants of the national interest is an important activity that should occupy our passing mo... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq Nigeria has four refineries. They are managed by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) which is a government subsidiary. All four refineries are moribund. Nobod... Read more
“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more
Having watched every World Cup tournament since 1970. Dr. Bangura can posit his never being as convinced as he is now after watching the Qatar World Cup that the domination of European and S... Read more
At the risk of looking back too much and continuing to stumble, this star studded reflection on Walter Rodney is what most would welcome. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Rodney like Fanon... Read more
The graphic serving as cover picture for this piece could as well have been a computer simulated stuff in an age when the real and the unreal can no longer be distinguished. But it is still... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki My thesis is that the state and government in Nigeria should primarily be concerned with protecting and supporting civil society in its entirety by first aligning t... Read more
Although the idea that the modern states-system was born in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia has been shattered especially by Benno Teschke’s thesis at the LSE now published as The Myth of 16... Read more
Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more
Unlike Europe, for instance, whose experience of the nomadic thrust in history is well accounted for, the dynamism of that process remains, understandably, undocumented in much of Africa, mo... Read more