It was 34 years last Thursday, (October 15th, 2021) that Thomas Sankara was killed as Military Head of State of Burkina Fasso. In this piece, the author takes another look at it all. By Abdu... Read more
This is not a controversy but a conversation between two economists although those who can carefully read between or behind the lines can see each’s main hint. The first economist is Larry E... Read more
Is it possible that the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria might be on the rebound to pacesetter role in agenda setting mandate of knowledge? This is what some observers are thinking in the ligh... Read more
It is an old debate that has come back with the death of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli. That is the debate on which of democracy and development should come before the other. The master... Read more
Is it the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ or the Chinese Communist Party at work or do the two have the same meaning? This should not be such a stupid question in that, up to 2012 and even i... Read more
In addition to banditry, kidnapping and generalised insecurity, the magnitude of corruption in Nigeria is back in the news with the 2020 corruption perception index ranking the country worse... Read more
Those who think former colonial powers are no longer pressing direct buttons in the affairs of their ex-colonies would have to think twice. A former Deputy High Commissioner of Britain to Gh... Read more
That any society in which the highest bidder is always the winner must, sooner than later, pay a price for that is, unarguably, the second of the two messages COVID-19 pandemic has sent to a... Read more
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
To what extent it would be right to crucify them is open to debate. That is those caustic Nigerians going about saying that the Ethiopian Airline reminds them of how Nigeria’s inability to o... Read more
