Next generation of Falcons, by Patrick Omorodion
The 2026 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup may have come and gone but the memories of it would linger for a very long time. The competition which is the lowest among the age grade competitions put together by football’s world governing body, FIFA as nursery for the senior teams participating in the Women’s World Cup […]
For Nollywood, ascendancy fuelled by Providus, by Okoh Aihe
I AM happy for Nollywood. Those who know the history of the industry will admit that Nollywood is enjoying some bubble at this time, like a guy on an imaginary trip on a gossamer. But this is real. All of a sudden the days of yore, of little beginnings, look so anachronistic, some kind of fables […]
Why Atiku may never become president, by Rotimi Fasan
NIGERIANS know it was President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who famously said he had nursed a lifelong ambition to be the president of Nigeria. It was Tinubu who lent voice to his ambition and for some Nigerians that statement displayed all the signs of hubris, a sense of entitlement that they find insufferable. The statement is of […]
Restructuring, transformation and order: The populist government of the Florentine Republic and lessons for Nigeria, by Usman Sarki
“The due arrangement of men in the active part of the state, far from being foreign to the purposes of a wise Government, ought to be amongst its very first and dearest objects”- Edmund Burke Adversities carry within them the seeds of revolution, reform and progress. Such was the case with the fall of the regime […]
Democracy and the people’s role (7), by Afe Babalola
State of emergency THE provision for declaration of emergency in the 1999 Constitution is not by accident. It is a product of necessity essentially to safeguard the protection of life and property and prevent a resort to anarchy in appropriate cases. This explains why then President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic […]
National Anthem: Deconstructing the military legacy, by Eric Teniola
ON Friday November 18, 2011, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, called for a referendum to gauge the preference of Nigerians on the two national anthems that the country has had since independence. Tinubu made the call while presenting a paper, titled: “Managing Nigeria’s […]
