As Ndigbo, we shouldn’t pretend that all is well with us. Our house has fallen and the earlier we tell ourselves the bitter truth that we are the architects of …
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Ever since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960 and becoming a Republic in 1963, the country seems to have been living on the edge; living dangerously, like the adrenalin-junkies of the extreme …
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In May 2000, the British Broadcasting Corporation asked me to contribute an online opinion piece that would x-ray the prospects for socio-economic progress on the African continent. The BBC’s commission …
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After the large turn-out of Nigerian voters clamouring for change, it has become clear that the political and legal underpinnings of our under-development has been the ascendancy of illusionary statecraft …
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In a recently published interview he granted the Vanguard Newspaper, ace columnist and social commentator, Dr Femi Aribisala expressed his candid views on the recently concluded 2015 General Elections, with …
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Muhammadu Buhari’s triumph over Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015 presidential election has unleashed a fever of hope in Nigeria. Everywhere I turn, I encounter among Nigerians the sense …
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It started out as a great idea for Engr. Seyi Makinde; the grand design that would see him clinching the top position in Oyo State’s politics. He put together a …
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All legal systems that operate in Sovereign states address the subjects of stealing and corruption. In Plato’s Statesman and Laws, he reflected learnedly on the problem of maintaining the rule …
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One of the things I have learnt, first as a student of literature, and then as a literary critic, is that incidents (especially those brought about by human action) do …
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The need to write this diary of an unemployed graduate (DOAUG) was necessitated because of the high level of unemployed graduates and the disparity it has created between the middle …