He was a spectacle at whichever head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) you met him, be it at Yaba in Lagos or at the Central Business District in Abuja. He wasn’t a sentry b... Read more
By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more
Several decades after the famous Mock OAU Summit series at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, students of the Anglican Girls Grammar School, Abuja are enacting a session again. The simulati... Read more
It is March 2nd, 2021 and the 125th anniversary of the battle of Adwa in 1896 where European/Italian forces were given the beating of their life by Ethiopian forces. It is appropriately an A... Read more
It will be another Nigeria in conversation Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 when radical nationalists, patriots, family, friends, colleagues and sundry activists gather to pay homage to the la... Read more
One of the ironies of COVID 19 played out today as what was hitherto unthinkable became practicable. The physical gathering for an Africa wide conversation around the life and times of two P... Read more
Very symbolic individuals in that circuit were already on the ground before it was 9 O’clock on June 11th, 2019 when the two of them were remembered for the umpteenth time. The two in... Read more
“The military came in as political physicians but ended up as political patients requiring even greater dosages of the medicinal prescription they had come in to serve to politicians”, That... Read more
Published originally as “The Taju Challenge” in May 2009 as a tribute to the departed, this piece serves as an appetizer to tomorrow’s inviting surgery on democracy that the Centre for Democ... Read more
Death has struck again in the community of activists in Nigeria a month after the death of Professor Abubakar Momoh and two weeks after the death of Professor Funmi Adewumi, a leading left a... Read more
