Karl Marx, socialism and Africa’s second liberation
Charles Onunaiju On the auspicious remembrance of the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (5th May 1818-May 2018), it would be pertinent to reflect on his work, its impact on the historical...
View ArticleThe killing of two priests and others
Evaristus Bassy I was away overseas when I heard the news of the killings in cold blood of two of my colleagues in Makurdi along with 14 worshippers at a week day liturgical celebration. These were...
View ArticleTrumping Nigeria’s agric production?
Ayo Oyoze Baje Ordinarily,, trade and bilateral agreements between two friendly countries should be a source of joy to the stakeholders. That is, if at the end of the day, there are equitable, fair and...
View ArticleBayo Oguntunase: A year gone!
If the above name does not ring a bell to you, it is either you were not an avid reader of Nigerian newspapers in the past four decades or you were not bothered by the horrendous ungrammaticality of...
View ArticleThe ban of codeine-based cough syrup
Adeze Ojukwu The nation’s public space is reverberating with reactions to the recent ban of codeine-containing cough syrup by the Federal Government. Amidst widespread commendations over the drastic...
View ArticlePope Francis, Trump and beleaguered Nigeria
Emmanuel Onwubiko Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari paid a state visit to the United States of America. Already, presidency officials are singing the praises of the United States administration even...
View ArticleBuhari’s comment on Nigerian youths
Jerome-Mario Utomi In the book titled, Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas stated that judgment may be considered lawful if the judge meets these conditions; follows justice, has authority, and does his...
View ArticleNigerian elite and democracy’s uncertainties (1)
Oseloka H. Obaze Description of Nigeria’s nascent democracy and its increasingly uncertain state can be redacted to a simple phrase – paradox of plenty and deprivation. Oddly, the presumption persists...
View ArticleEnsuring impactful leadership in the civil service
Akintola Benson-Oke Management experts have developed a set of introspective questions that can help in assessing an individual’s standing vis-à-vis acceptable team work, leadership and work place...
View ArticleThe weak and the rest of us
Promise Adiele Nigeria is presently composed of three different sets of people, the weak, the neutrals and the wicked. The lines of division have never been glaringly evident as it is now. In one...
View ArticleThe controversial Tucano jets
It is nothing but one week, one controversy, for President Muhammadu Buhari. Hardly had he extricated himself from his controversial comments on the “laziness” of uneducated Nigerian youths with an...
View ArticleNigerian elite and democracy’s uncertainties (2)
Oseloka H. Obaze Consequently, Nigeria’s democracy struggle due to an unwritten code and consensus of elite collegiality in subjugatin the nation, even as some observers contend that “there is an edge...
View ArticleRestructuring the Nigerian economy
Adetokunbo Pearse All economic indices attest to a negative trend in the Nigerian economy since the advent of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Direct Foreign Investment decreased by 20%, the stock...
View ArticleCelebrating Nigerian workers
Rauf Aregbesola Going down memory lane, May 1 of every year is an important day set aside to commemorate the Chicago incident of May 4, 1886. That was the horrible day law enforcement agents attempted...
View ArticlePresidential Primaries: A recipe for defeat
In the United States, a primary challenge of an incumbent president running for nomination for a second term bid is no longer palatable. History has shown that intra-party primary, particularly when...
View ArticleObi, Gates and human development
Polycarp Egodi Wisdom and introspection are necessary to understand the dynamics of the world and apply oneself becomingly to those realities. It is not every act of man that adds to our humanity and...
View ArticleNaysayers and Bayelsa public service reforms
Daniel Alabrah Timi is about 27 years and hails from a rustic community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. He is not a lazy Nigerian youth (if you catch my drift). Since he left...
View ArticleHow long will Nigeria remain this way?
Oludayo Tade The unfolding reality in Nigeria is that of a leadership which has displayed sufficient incapacity in protecting lives of the hoi polloi and repositioning the nation on the path of justice...
View ArticleReligion and other opiates
The great German thinker, Karl Marx, might have had Nigeria in mind when he postulated years ago that religion is the opium of the masses. The religious opium is visible and active all over Africa....
View ArticleThat Oshiomhole’s declaration
Ahmed Usman It is very clear that the issue of who becomes the next National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is almost over after watching the declaration of the immediate past governor...
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