Oral history is as good as its limitations: incomplete, changing over time, distorted, embellished, lost. It is time we wheeled ourselves to the 21st century. Recently, my daughter, a final year university student, had an […]
A police force that cannot protect its own men can scarcely protect about 180 million people at half strength. On Monday, July 2, 2018, about seven policemen were gunned down during a routine stop-and-search operation […]
The Nigerian Council for Legal Education which coordinates the solemn annual ceremonies of call to the Nigerian bar and the hierarchy of the Nigerian judiciary are some of the finest minds in legal scholarship. There […]
Nigeria may think that the trade war that began with the USA imposing tariffs on China and China retaliation by doing likewise, will have no impact on the country. That is largely correct as the […]
Two seemingly unrelated events have made it necessary for this column to revisit a national pastime that has been grafted into our DNA as a people. Exhibition of egregious acts of indiscipline, at the least […]
An understandable outrage has followed the Presidency’s latest outlandish remark over the activities of killer herdsmen. In one of the most discomforting shows of the insensitivity of the country’s leadership to the people’s feelings and […]
No, it will be delusional to describe Bukola Saraki’s recent acquittal by the Supreme Court as pyrrhic. The man took his critics (which INCLUDED this writer – emphasis on the tense here, please) and political […]
Plateau State, a land of intricately beautiful hills, picturesque plateaus, storied farming and boundless hospitality is perilously perched on a bloody precipice whose ragged edges are awash in the impaled bodies of its own people […]
In Nigeria, alliance politics is a historical staple. In the 1960s, the NCNC and NPC forged an alliance to stabilise the newly independent country. But the marriage segued from harmony to divorce. The skirmishes among […]
I can’t disagree more with the Federal Government’s drive to confiscate the assets belonging to private citizens. It is like using a machine gun to kill a mosquito. At best, it will be tantamount to […]
The youthful – it will be inappropriate to say, juvenile- President Emmanuel Macron of France showed up at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. He was making […]
The resolution last week by the National Assembly backing the establishment of state police forces represents a major hurdle cleared in the quest for effective law enforcement in Nigeria. After years of brinksmanship, both chambers […]
The man was originally called Fela Ransome Kuti. To validate his cultural roots as an African original he changed his name to Fela Anikulapo Kuti. But those who loved him and those who didn’t love […]
The visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Nigeria last week was historic. It was also unique in many ways. The historic mission was defined by the breadth of the youthful French President’s substantive engagements […]
These are trying times, to say the least. But the speculative reports and claims reinforce the argument that we need to be circumspect. It’s in our best interest to FACT-CHECK the news before we click […]
Nigeria has lost her exceptionally strong leaders who clustered within the loop of good moral standing as near impeccable characters over the years. Since the loss of such intelligent and nationalistic oriented leaders, we have […]
Nigeria, our once beautiful country has been transformed into the playground of evil minded and uncouth individuals who have taken immense advantage of our poorly managed and weak security. If you like, call it shameful. […]
Two existential issues – security and poverty- that bear great relevance to the assessment of performance of governments globally reared their heads back-to-back, last week, in Nigeria. Both issues were so tangible that they could […]
Over time, the term Thermidor has come to mean the phase in some revolutions when power slips from the hands of the original revolutionary leadership and a radical regime and placed into the hands of […]
Tunde Odesola Humanity oscillates between extreme opposites; darkness paints the beauty of light; fear skirts the periphery of bravery; ugliness envies beauty; falsehood stalks truth, death ambushes life; good wrestles evil; all in an everlasting […]
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