What Is Nigeria’s Notre Dame?, By Jibrin Ibrahim
I remembered my visit, years ago, to the excellent Kainji Games reserve, with its abundance of wild life and the Kainji Lake itself, which could have been a centre for aquatic sports. For the three days we were at the reserve, my family members were the only tourists. The Yankari…
Creative Thinking: The New Secret To Success With Vocational Training, By Adetola Salau
The way the design thinking process works is that the end user is put in mind first and it also involves the participation of both the designers (students) and the customer. This collaboration and gathering of information are highly coveted qualities that are necessary in the workplace. And, these are…
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Laughter As Political Medicine, By Azu Ishiekwene
It might seem unfair to attach Zelensky to a family tree of ideologically deranged forbears. Indeed, the sentiment in some Western capitals is that here, at last, is the man with whom the West can do business. But as surely as the fruit never falls too far from the tree,…
Atiku Was Born In Nigeria, By Majeed Dahiru
To proceed in this unfortunate error of impugning on Atiku’s legitimate status as a Nigerian citizen by birth will be to delegitimise the citizen status by birth of Nigeria’s foremost founding fathers - Ahmadu Bello (1910), Obafemi Awolowo (1909) and Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904) who were mostly born before the 1914…
Widows, Orphans and the Price of Failed Governance, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Zamfara tragedy, coming shortly after Boko Haram’s devastation of the a lot about the declining glory of this vast and rich Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno once disclosed that the insurgency has left in its trail, 54,911 widows and 52,311 orphans, and they are still counting. There is this…
NCPC: The Stinking Road To Jerusalem, By Dele Agekameh
Some staff of the NCPC are believed to be in the process of filing a petition to the EFCC which will not only be an embarrassment to the Christian community and the SGF, but likely also to the VP, himself, a pastor. It is imperative that the ES steps aside…
Nigeria: Nurturing the Anger of the Poor, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
The ingredients of violent agitation are threatening to come together. The populist posture will soon wear out. The government must take active steps to guarantee legal rights to basic needs like food, health and education. Failure to act will threaten Nigeria's corporate existence. "No more free money". Some of us…
Arguments in the Nigerian Left By Edwin Madunagu
The 2019 general elections provoked undeclared and unstructured discussions and debates in the Nigerian Left. Of the various themes that can be articulated from these animated exchanges of opinions—some of which are continuing—at least three may be considered central in the history and politics of revolutionary socialist struggle in Nigeria.…
Comedian as president, pregnancy in prison By Louis Odion
There are some telltale signs of a perishing society, observed Alexander Solzhenitsyn. These, according to the Russian literary immortal and Nobel laureate, include acute scarcity of great statesmen and decline in arts. Conversely, a profound message must be intended when voters choose to go far outside the traditional power caste…
What’s wrong with these end-time Governors? By Reuben Abati
“Yes?” “I have been calling you since. If somebody is calling you, you should pick your calls.” You know that kind of tone, sounds like the guy at the other end is holding a horse-whip and would apply it on your back, to beat the devil out of you, if…
