Dr. Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina is a PhD holder in Agricultural Economics. He has very intimidating credentials as a globally respected technocrat and scholar. Since the year 2015 he has been the president of the Africa Development Bank (AFDB) the monetary…
In today’s Nigeria, you don’t need to look far to find a lie—just turn on the news, attend a political rally, scroll through Instagram, or listen to your neighbour’s “breakthrough testimony.” Lies have become a tool of survival, a…
THE most frustrating and embarrassing news swirling through media space came from the Defence Headquarters yesterday. The military is ‘blaming foreign herders for deadly attacks in Benue, Plateau and other regions of the country due to lax and porous…
SINCE 2009, when the office of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) was formed, different heads have spearheaded it. Still, none can be said to have faced opposition and detractors from various angles like the one being faced by the…
At about 20:30Hrs on this day in 2014, I was released by kidnappers after a most traumatic experience. The night before, I was served strokes of a thorny cane on my bare back. About 10:00Hrs this day, I was…
INTRODUCTION The theme of this lecture couldn’t be more apt given the cocktail of challenges which continue to bedevil our dear country almost 65 years after political independence from Britain. The list is so familiar that it has almost…
WAKING up in the morning and listening to Bendel Broadcasting Service (BBS), you would be inundated and perhaps serenaded by beautiful music from the oldies. Bongos Ikwue was an extraordinary artiste. The Benue-born artiste released many hits that captured…
THE recent events in Delta State and the wave of defections from the PDP to the APC have indeed signposted major concerns about the state of democracy in Nigeria. The book “How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel…
On a fateful day, You came into my life , On the day , I made up my mind to make you my wife , You have been to me a shining light, Guiding me in the thorny path…
NIGERIA is a wonderful country, too wonderful to make one forget the meaning of a kerfuffle. Whatever happens, someone somewhere is waiting to make an issue out of it, by giving a good, bad or even ugly rendition of…
