SECURITY has become not just one of the major issues in Nigeria, but it is now actually the prime issue. Many of us are yet to come to terms with the Nigeria we knew, and had our spaces to enjoy…
IT was Martin Luther King Jr. that said, ‘The Time Is Always Right To Do What Is Right’. This is one cliché that perfectly resonates with the moral principles that draw a distinction between what is correct or wrong behaviour.…
TILL date, I have not still been able to finish reading this enigma’s epic, “The Man Died”, since I picked it up in 1979 (45 whole years ago). It is a 1972 non-fiction book exploring his experiences in prison during…
THE long silent of believing in a single story was first broke by a famous born Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie in a long eassy in one of the series programs organised by TED. An average reader indoctrinate what he first…
From 1966 to 1999, Nigeria was uninterruptedly governed by a military government, except for the short-lived return to democracy in the Second Republic, which was 1979 to 1983. That period happened to be the period of radicalization and political…
THERE was a quote I read in a small but fascinating book some two decades ago that I can longer quote verbatim. It had to do with the de-contextualization and interrogation of held believes and theories by successive generations. That…
THE politics of monopoly and oligarchy are familiar phenomena in Nigeria and beyond. During General Abacha’s military rule in the 1990s, while working at the Federal Ministry of Finance, I witnessed first-hand the plight of a retired military officer who…
It might be difficult for you to get a job, but I tell you, it is more difficult to keep it. Intelligence and understanding the variables gives you a job, competence, humility and integrity keeps you in the job. The…
AS usual, Mr Bayo Onanuga lost his luster as he pandered balefully over purported President Bola Amhed Tinubu’s speech that never was. Tellingly, the famous “President Tinubu’s Speech” actually highlighted and mirrored the minds of millions of Nigerians on the…
Environmental sustainability is the challenge of modern development agenda. The critical need to balance infrastructural and productive growth economic trajectory with preserving our society for our future and our children needs meticulous thinking through and a broad based, overall vision…
