I am sharing this article by my friend Otunba Abiodun Olufowobi (otherwise known as Pabiekun) because it would make a lot of sense if Nigeria was less warped and if President Tinubu was more trustworthy!     While global attention remains fixed on the rising tensions among the United States, Israel and Iran, Nigeria has once again found […]

In The Republic, Plato makes strong connections between city and soul, arguing that as the city is, so is the soul; both having a tripartite nature, corresponding to the rational/wisdom-loving, appetitive/desiring and spirited/honour-seeking elements. The Bible defines the soul’s three elements as mind, emotion and will. The ideal state, like the ideal individual, is one with […]

Imagine this scenario: a widely shared article made the rounds online. Thousands reposted it. Professionals quoted it in meetings. Students cited it in assignments. Weeks later, it was revealed that the statistics in the article had been fabricated. What is striking is not merely that the data were false. It is that almost no one paused […]

It is no longer news that the U.S. and Israel, on Saturday, February 28, launched blistering attacks on Iran, an operation Donald Trump dubbed “Epic Fury,” thereby putting the Middle East on tenterhooks. The biggest irony of the tragedy? It is orchestrated by a man who vowed that under his watch, the U.S. seemingly insatiable appetite […]

Our elders certainly have a well of wisdom. When they say the young shall grow, they obviously know what they are talking about. That, it is the child whose growing up makes life a continuum and stretches it into eternity. It is the child’s achievement tomorrow that accounts for the future. The young really shall grow. […]

With the current Nigerian politicians, each week, if not each day, comes with its own drama. After their comprehensive defeat in the Abuja municipal election and the bye-election in Rivers and Kano (and I say this without any sense of triumphalism- I had neither horse in the race nor do I care who won or lost […]

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters”—  Antonio Gramsci I recall vividly that I was in New York City when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were locked in their historic contest for the American presidency in 2016. Within diplomatic circles, media houses, academic institutions, […]

From last week continues the narrative tracing the history of how some past Nigerian leaders were hosted by the British Monarch after it emerged that President Bola Tinubu and his wife would similarly be hosted on March 18 in Windsor Castle instead of Buckingham Palace On that visit, he was accompanied by Alhaji Nuhu Bamali, […]

“Terrifying are the weaknesses of power”— African proverb You just knew they would not turn tail and get back to the US empty-handed. All those ships and planes and everything else that can destroy a country’s critical infrastructure and terminate its leadership massed against a country, Iran. Still, Iran negotiated between being beheaded or being disarmed. […]

By Dele Sobowale Almost every administration, since Babangida introduced VISION 2020 in 1992, had suffered from the same illusion of propelling the Nigerian economy to the top 20 globally, in terms of Gross Domestic Product, GDP, within a remarkably short time. In 1992, when the idea was first floated, Nigeria ranked 32; it is ranked 44 […]