This is the second and concluding part of Yusuf Bangura’s tribute to Thandika Mkandawire with whom he worked closely for eleven years. It is the sort of stuff journalists like to call explos... Read more
A big drama is, indeed, playing out in Brazil, with world scale significance. The release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison is the crashing of a strategy of undermining what he repres... Read more
Either as a deliberate strategy of suspense and whatever benefits could accrue from that or a manifestation of some internal problem, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, leading presidential contender in... Read more
Arusha, the Tanzanian city where the late President Julius Nyerere declared ‘Ujamaa’, (his cultural Socialism) 51 years ago is again the venue of a possible new declaration about getting the... Read more
By 2003 when the Workers Party won election and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shortened to ‘Lula’, became the president, Brazil was a virtual write off. The IMF was running the show, dictating... Read more
The paradox of a former president such as Lula who took Brazil into global power status, including the symbolic gesture of offering the IMF a bailout, going to jail would probably take time... Read more
Cutting edge postulations echoed across the Basement Complex at Veritas University, Abuja earlier this morning as high voltage political scientists, Historians and economists engaged the the... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja This is a 2006 interview conducted and reported in The Nation where this reporter was the Managing Editor. It is reproduced here over a decade after because it is time someon... Read more
Faint drumbeats of radical politics and actions are beginning to be heard across Nigeria again. The question though is whether it is anything new and qualitative or just residual spasms of a... Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU)-Federal Government stalemate remains the biggest story in town in Nigeria today considering the number of persons affected – students a... Read more
