President Donald Trump of the United States, US, is driving an articulated truck at high speed on the global highway. His truck has neither a rear view mirror nor side view mirrors. He relies on his assistants like James David Vance and Elon Musk to do the work of the mirrors. To compound issues, he sees […]

Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, south-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in this theatre from open source records but unofficial estimates suggest that there may be up to […]

Across the globe, democracy has become the most popular system of government because under it, persons in power are elected by the people to represent them in government thus establishing that the people own the government and that power belongs to the people. No matter how benevolent a dictator may be, it is unreasonable for […]

“Old age is now a moving concept” – American Sociology Professor, 1967. It was in my third year as an undergraduate, when taking a course on demographics, that Professor Epstein made the remark to introduce us to demographics – defined as “the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which […]

My youth was impacted by the years when Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. I was admitted to the university the very year he led a counter-coup against the fumbling administration of the other coup plotter, Muhammadu Buhari. Both men had disrupted what I still think of as a happy childhood, […]