In May 2017, my first daughter had just completed her West African School Certificate Examination and was home when I…
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As background to this piece, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),…
NATION BUILDING Find the first part of this article series here. Are our leaders to blame for the state of…
Since 1951, the Nigerian petty bourgeois politicians and their fellow travelers at all levels have increasingly manipulated sectional chauvinism of…
I have pondered on Atiku Abubakar’s case against President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential election petition tribunal. I have also…
9th September, 2019. Information and Evidence Unit, Office of the Prosecutor, Post Office Box 19519, 2500 CM The Hague, The…
The spasmodic xenophobic attacks, which commenced around 2000 and escalated recently, has placed South Africa front and centre of global…
The Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Administration in Nigeria (2010 – 2015) has generated quite a number of post-tenure publications which significantly,…
How do you measure the virility of an administration; its potency to impregnate the economy, infrastructure and welfare of citizens?…
Like Timor-Leste, West Papua, commonly subsuming both Papua and West Papua, remains a separate ethnic entity, acknowledged as such by…
In his first coming as military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari foresaw the possibility of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians…
In 2017, MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory creature trapped in cold storage, suggested that the UK’s withdrawal from the European…
“Don’t ask the deaf man to beat a drum for you to dance”… Anonymous I love Nigeria, we largely a…
When Adekunle Gold dropped his hit song “Ariwo Ko”, one would think he had Abia State’s politics in mind particularly…
Dorian© Dorian, Dorian, And so came pouring rains, Awninged clouds and comingled winds, An alchemy; ruthless, with ominous potency. August’s…
Robert Mugabe is the sort of figure that always caused discomfort. He was a permanent revolutionary, becoming, in time, the…
#TrackNigeria This week, Agnes Callamard, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions published her end of…
“In war, you can only be killed once,but in politics many times.” …
Watch out for notorious con men from high places at work again in all African countries backed by their governments,…
There is something to be said of wariness when it comes to revolutionary voices. As Albert Camus argued in that…
I recall writing on August 2017, on the topic; Nigerian youth; celebrated abroad, despised at home, where I among other…
Natural Species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don’t make new genes, they rearrange existing…
In the past few days, xenophobic and anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa reached a tipping point. Innocent Nigerians, whose leaders…
“The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone,…
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the…
Reports say a Nigerian, who had gone to lodge a protest against the dispatch of his fellow countrymen by a…
The single-mindedness of Captain Hosa Okunbo, a business mogul of international repute and a proud son of Benin Kingdom, is…
At the recent presidential retreat for his cabinet members, President Muhammadu Buhari defined the ethos that would undergird the workings…
Expecting Abubakar Malami,the Attorney-General of the federation to satisfactorily defend the Buhari administration’s handling of the Process and Industrial Development…
My favorite passage from the many essays by the 20th Century management theorist, prophet of customer-centricism, and dialectician, Peter F.…