We can’t stop lamenting the parlous state of electricity generation, distribution and transmission in Africa’s most influential country. On Sunday, April 21, rainstorm did havoc to power installations around the …
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Untenable fuel scarcity amid deregulation
It is unacceptable to subject Nigerians to excruciating pains while trying to access Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, the market of which the Federal Government claims has …
Read More »Selwyn Cudjoe as heir to C.L.R. James
On a chilly spring day, I arrived in the salubrious setting of Wellesley College in Massachusetts to honour towering Trinidadian Pan-African scholar, Selwyn Cudjoe, who was retiring from the liberal …
Read More »Presidential monologue (17)
The above is from the play titled, ‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare. Through the character of Mark Anthony, he predicted a civil war and bloodbath in Italy, following the assassination …
Read More »Maersk, Ngelale and needless diatribes
For democracy to thrive, it is imperative that various elements including opposition political parties, civil societies, faith and community-based organisations, the media, and citizens play their respective roles as watchdog …
Read More »Tinubu-First-Year-Watch: Technical education as game changer
As the first year anniversary of President Bola Tinubu’s government is loading, it is the right time to remind the administration on the expediency of freezing politics of #Project 2027 …
Read More »Bobrisky: When the sheriffs are puritans
Brooding over the Bobrisky debacle, I thought of a piece I would caption, ‘When the Sheriffs are Puritans’.The puritanic rendition of the Naira offence in relation to the personal life …
Read More »Pegging university entry age no longer realistic
Reversing the entry age for admission into universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria from 16 to 18 years will be anachronistic and an indication of gross misunderstanding of the …
Read More »A peep into ‘media and Nigeria’s constitutional democracy…’
Edited works are most times high-quality works. The reason is that they are a conflation of intellectual resources. In them, we have an assembly of writers approaching a theme from …
Read More »Curbing the surging scourge of terrorism in Africa
Foreign affairs analysts have postulated that West Africa, and indeed the entire Africa, is facing an existential threat triggered by a surge in terrorism on the continent. Terrorism, violent extremism, …
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