Remaking Nigeria, Sixty Years After 

“…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices   “A country is as good and redeeming as those who engage in its […]

EMMA OKOCHA: THE GREAT CHRONICLER OF THE HISTORY NIGERIANS WOULD RATHER FORGET

Emmanuel Okocha’s book ‘Blood on the Niger: The First Black-On-Black Genocide’ was already out for about eleven years before I read it for the first time in January 2013. It was befitting I encountered the book in its revised and updated edition in Asaba, the capital of Delta state, where my Lolo and I had […]

What are Africa’s Security Challenges in the 21st Century?

It is quite humbling when a distinguished academic you read his works as an undergraduate asks you to review his book. That was exactly what happened when Professor Tunde Adeniran asked me to review his book, Africa’s Security Challenges in the 21st Century: Power, Principles and Praxis which was presented to the public on November […]

N-Power: FG gives update on outstanding payment for Batch B

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouq, has given an update on the payment of stipends to beneficiaries of N-Power. Farouq on Thursday at the interactive forum with state focal persons for the Social Investment Programmes held in Abuja, appealed to beneficiaries of Batch B to be patient, adding that […]