In a recent intervention on ‘Targeted judicial reforms and enhanced judicial integrity in post-election litigation’, the columnist, Farooq Kperogi, made some profound observatnions and recommendations towards sanitizing the nation’s political …
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Birthday drivels and national celebration of inanities
The provocative and obscene celebration of birthdays by public personages is fast becoming a rude national pastime. The general Nigerian audience has bemusedly endured a siege of insults for quite …
Read More »Unity: When men, women come together, they build together
Unity is the opposite of being divided. The Cambridge Dictionary defines unity as a state of being joined together or in agreement. The post Unity: When men, women come together, …
Read More »Invitation to cultism
When I accepted the invitation to guest-speak at the Summit, this Summit, of the Edo Zone of the Neo-Black Movement of Africa (NBM) I must admit straightaway that I did …
Read More »Light beckoning at end of long dark tunnel
After a very long time, one arm of our electric power authority had the courtesy to alert us that it would shut down for three days and we would not …
Read More »Tales of the next Onikoyi of Ikoyi
Ordinarily, the crisis brewing in the Ikoyi kingdom of Lagos Island over the choice of successor to the vacant throne is needless, indeed avoidable if only the stakeholders adhere to …
Read More »Who dares rechristen the University of Ilorin
Whenever I’m privileged to visit Ilorin the Kwara State capital, I include in my itinerary a visit to the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), as is popularly abbreviated. My passion, maybe …
Read More »Security, science and technology: Exploring enhanced productivity (2)
Continued from yesterday The ideas of state and people are closely related. Indeed, a classic definition of sovereignty (which is the key attribute of a state) is effective control over …
Read More »Survival of the fittest and profligacy of government
The English philosopher and psychologist, Herbert Spencer, coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” (1820-1903). He is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserts that the principles of …
Read More »Edo 2024: Let the brightest, Odion-Akhaine, do it
If the Edo people are tired of governance failure and are sincerely looking for a visible hand to pull the levers of transformational development for their state that has made …
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