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, […]