The contention on the ground is that there is nothing yet from any of the over sixty presidential candidates that addresses taking Nigeria ‘From the Third to the First World’. All the candid... Read more
After hauling historical invectives at each other to no end, the regional fractions of the power elite in Nigeria are enacting a convergence of interest that is sending ripples across the re... Read more
By Yinka Adegoke There was an intriguing front page cover by the Angolan newspaper, Expansão, this week. It declared, “Every Angolan owes $745 to China”. It also listed debt to other countri... Read more
It has been a week in which protests by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, aka Shiites; dramatic disappearance of the Mace at the Senate and row over presidential rhetoric on the youths occupi... 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
The reality of a band of killers roaming freely beyond 24 hours in any country today automatically implicates any president or prime minister anywhere in the world. President Buhari has rema... 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
Universities in Africa remain a battleground. Makerere University in Uganda, a senior member of the club of the most prestigious universities in Africa in those days is currently under lock... Read more
Part 1 By Adagbo ONOJA Professor Mwesiga Baregu, the Stanford educated Tanzanian political scientist would be the first to tell you that he was the chief strategist of the opposition in that... Read more
