My thoughts are many and spread. Sometimes, I try to find the truth; what am I actually doing here? What brought me here is truly to live and work or to work and live or simply, to make money without working but...
Current Affairs
Throwing a Shoe at the “Rebranding Nigeria” Project by Sola Salako
My friend and long time colleague, Maero Ozako had created a group on Facebook (we belong to the ‘Agbayas on Facebook Clan”) titled “Throw a shoe at the Rebranding Nigeria Project” (a la the...
“POWER AND CREATIVE STRATEGY” – by Patrick Nwadike
My first intuition was to head this treatise “How Not to Help a People” or “How best to Assist a People” but I ended up following other instinct probably because the discourse is about financial...
Between Nation Space and Nationhood
Text of a lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, as part of activities marking the centenal birthday celebration of Chief Obafemi Awolowo held at the MUSON Centre, Lagos, on Tuesday, March...
The Kublai-Khan by Patrick Nwadike
Some believe we live in dangerous times. They look at what they can see; the deep in the world economy, turmoil in some places of the earth, natural disaster, lack of food in Haiti and elsewhere which is a bigger...
The Osu Caste System in Contemporary Igboland – By Roy Chikwem
The discriminatory practice of the Osu caste system in Igboland has thrived against copious attempts to abolish this inhumane, sadistic, heartless and degrading treatment. Many statutes, laws, edicts and proclamations...
A BROKEN GOVERNMENT
A BROKEN GOVERNMENT: The Threshold of Constitutional Crisis and Abuse of the Impeachment Process in Nigeria - By Roy ChikwemSince the introduction of democracy in Nigeria, five governors have been impeached in a...
NAS Press Release: THE RIBADU SAGA
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) condemns the dismissal of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr. Nuhu Ribadu from the Police force as unconstitutional and a flagrant...
NAS Press Release: UNENDING CRISES IN THE PLATEAU
IntroductionThe recent crisis that engulfed Jos, the Plateau State capital is another sad reminder of the fact that our dear country still has a long way to go in its quest for a peaceful, idea-centric, egalitarian and...
How politics spreads epidemics, ruins academics – By Olaokun Soyinka
WHAT sort of book is Epidemics, Academics and Politics by Prof. Idris Mohammed? The author provides answer in his introduction emphasising that this is not an autobiography. Indeed, though it contains some historical...
The Privatization and Commercialization of Higher Education in Nigeria – By Roy Chikwem
Introduction The Nigerian higher educational sector is perhaps the largest in Sub-Sahara Africa both in the number of educational institutions and the population of students. Only 57 per cent of adult Nigerians are...
Budget 2009 is not right
There are several pitfalls in the 2009 Federal Budget. The most scandalous of this has resulted in the unwarranted haggling over inclusion of constituency projects in the Appropriation Bill. The so-called constituency...