As I was saying before the electricity jumbo bill and other related bills came to compound our expenditure woes: The post ‘Reflections on Nigerian public service: An outsider’s perspective’ – …
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Questionstorm: Why critical thinking matters in Africa
African youths often participate in witch-hunting campaigns. They blindly and dogmatically believe in witches, sanction, instigate, and commission witch and demon hunting and exorcism in their families and communities. The …
Read More »The bastardisation of religions in Nigeria
I feel disgruntled as a devout Muslim! The Holy Quran aptly posits that there should be no compulsion in religious beliefs. The post The bastardisation of religions in Nigeria appeared …
Read More »Invest in women and foster inclusion
Recently, the International Women’s Day 2024 with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” was celebrated globally. Although the United Nations mainstreamed this event in 1977, its origin is actually …
Read More »Is there hope for the third force?
Peter Obi shook the political establishment in 2022 when he chose to run as presidential candidate of the obscure Labour Party. He captured the imagination of the youths. The post …
Read More »Another round of bank recapitalisation
Another round of bank recapitalisation is here and for the next two years between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2026, the nation’s 25 commercial and six merchant banks are …
Read More »Reflection that makes for progress
It cannot be for nothing that we human beings are endowed with the faculty with which to reflect, to weigh and examine, to think and in the words of a …
Read More »Seven lessons of Okuama calamity
Has Nigeria learnt any lessons from the Okuama massacre? Will the incident repeat itself or offer profound lessons against future experience? In the journey of life, no individual or nation …
Read More »Glorification of Igho Natufe as an octogenarian – Part 2
Professor Omajuwa Igho Natufe is an intriguingly intriguing fellow, an intriguingly intriguing old chap of the Safarian hue true and true. He can/could be agreeably agreeable and disagreeably disagreeable at …
Read More »But what really is Nigeria’s problem?
When, in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said that Italy “is only a geographical expression”, the former Deputy of the Kingdom of Italy and the Father of Modern Italy, …
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