How President Tinubu Can Remake the LGCs in Nigeria
By Chief Stephen Lawani President Bola Tinubu has, from a completely unexpected angle, offered something unifying of Nigerians. It is last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling granting financial... Read more
Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom
It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more
Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa
The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Not Ngugi Wa Thiongo!
The Africans, however defined, have their own idea of which African writer should win the Nobel Prize on Literature. The Swedish Academy which decides who wins have their own idea of which A... Read more
Imposing Third Term on Buhari in 2022/23
One tragic element in Nigeria is how the political education of most agitators in Nigerian politics does not appear to immunize them against what Wole Soyinka has called ‘disco criticism’ or... Read more
Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria
Abubakar Rimi’s Graveside and the Travails of a Tendency in Nigeria By Adagbo ONOJA A few days ago, someone circulated an existing picture of the graveside of Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi... Read more
Is the Beaten Track Beaten?
Is the Beaten Track Beaten? In 1999, General Olusegun Obasanjo became the president of Nigeria against the background of a highly fragmented or a deeply divided country. June 12 politics mad... Read more
Cracking General Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics By Adagbo ONOJA At a time when the sources of the subjective requirements for rebuilding Nigeria are still indeterminable, the... Read more
History in Nigerian Schools, But What Manner of History?
Nigeria has just restored the teaching of History in schools, five years after it was taken off in favour of Civics. The decision was the outcome of pressures, pressure informed by a belief... Read more
Intervention Got It Right
This newspaper’s reading of recent visit of a number of high profile players to Aso Rock Villa, the seat of federal power in Nigeria as the eve of a major policy has been confirmed correct.... Read more