Kesington Adebutu at 91, by Dele Sobowale
“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions” – Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, 1993. Chief Adebutu, aka Baba Ijebu, is one Nigerian who never stops with only good intentions. As Uncle Sam said to me several times: “His middle name is CHARITY.” The capital is deliberate. Baba was 91 […]
The World Bank and Nigeria inseparable
By Dele Sobowale “We discouraged (the government) from borrowing and the Nigerian desk and the World Bank suffered the consequences. “If you check, you would see that if the World Bank country director does not lend, it is either he is demoted or removed. But, it is our responsibility to make sure that the lending […]
Bene Madunagu: Intellectual, mother, botanist, leftist-feminist and revolutionary socialist, by Owei Lakemfa
The Left Movement in Nigeria gained two of its best known leaders in 1973. Edwin ‘Eddie’ Ikechukwu Madunagu was a 27-year-old postgraduate student of Mathematics, specifically Differential Equations and Functions of a Complex Variable. He was in the University of Lagos, UNILAG, and had joined the Nigerian Youth Action Committee, NYAC. In UNILAG, that same year, […]
Does Africa have a January problem? By Chidi Odinkalu
Fifty-seven years ago almost to the month, celebrated Kenya political scientist, Ali Mazrui, observed that “for some reason a disproportionate number of the historic acts of violence in Africa since independence have tended to happen in the months of January and February.” He had good reason for this. In January 1961, the Belgians and the Americans […]
Does Africa Have a January problem?
57 years ago almost to the month, celebrated Kenya political scientist, Ali Mazrui, observed that “for some reason a disproportionate number of the historic acts of violence in Africa
Happy New year, by Patrick Omorodion
I want to glorify the name of God for making me see 2025. Not all those that started 2024 with us are alive to see this first Sunday of 2025. That you are alive reading this, is enough to be thankful to Him. I thank God for the wisdom to always think out a topic […]
