The recent budget presentation by Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has reignited the debate on Nigeria’s stagnation and the intersection between leadership failure and citizen complicity. In a moment…
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When, in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said that Italy “is only a geographical expression”, the former Deputy of the Kingdom of Italy and the Father of Modern Italy,…
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Without mince of words, Nigerian citizens since creation have always been juxtaposed with animals willy-nilly. Because of the three of them adorning our coat of arms, perhaps. But topping the…
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That crazy (and actually dangerous, if we don’t mind the banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism) season is here in Nigeria again, where all governance ceases, the poor, ignorant, unknowingly disenfranchised populace…
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Fellow Nigerians, if reports emanating from the grapevine are anything to go by, then, interesting times beckon in 2022. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Nigerian government is expected to fully…
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Jean-Pierre Legros, Author of “Diversium”, an interdisciplinary theory of Everything wrote: “Nothing is free. Because nothing exists without relationships with something else. Even when a thing is considered independently of…
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I have often heard that politics in Nigeria is a game of ‘numbers’. For anyone who needs to understand what that metaphor stands for, they should know that democracy is…
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Tomorrow, May 29, 2020, is what used to be referred to in Nigeria as “Democracy Day,” but now it will only serve as the anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and that…
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Nigeria has been facing constitutional crisis since independence in 1960. The 1999 Constitution is also the reason for the call for secession, disintegration, restructuring and true federalism by some ethnic…
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The widespread aversion, in some quarters, to incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari’s re-election bid is as shocking as it is baffling. It beats the imagination that in less than four years,…
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One of the most profound decisions the Adams Oshiomhole-leadership of the All Progressives Congress is bringing to party politics is the adoption of direct primary as a means of selecting…
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We, the people of Nigeria, must device a means of steering the course of our destiny in the light of the socio-political realities of the present time. Our condition calls…
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Last month, March, a self-driving SUV knocked down and killed a pedestrian trying to cross the street in downtown Arizona, USA. That incident came at a time when UBER was…
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The time is now for our politicians to be proactive about what direction our nation will be moving from now on. My experience with my friends and other Nigerians both…
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About 100 years ago, the Spanish flu wiped out 5% of the world’s population; it was reported as one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Those days were dark…