66 years on, Nigeria must escape the fragility trap, by Olu Fasan
How fragile is Nigeria? That is one question Nigerian leaders don’t want to confront. Indeed, it irks them when anyone says that Nigeria is a fragile state. What’s more, some Nigerians, out of sheer romantic or sentimental patriotism hate it when the word “fragility” is used to describe Nigeria. It is unpatriotic, they reckon, for […]
#PressforProgress in 2018?
Next week is the International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #PressforProgress. It is obvious, there is much more to do in terms of gender parity to lift Nigeria females out of poverty and lack of opportunities.
When Morak met Trump at the Tower
This piece is adapted from a note published in my blog on January 19, 2017
As I sat in the office reception on the 26th floor of the gigantic tower overlooking the Central Park, Manhattan, many thoughts were running through my mind.
It’s a piggy fight in Kaduna
Stories from Kaduna State in recent times have not been pleasant. In addition to the killings carried out mostly in the southern part of the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen, among others, the political crisis now rocking the state appears to have assumed a more dangerous dimension.
Black Panther- what’s the big deal
In December of 2016, the Nigerian cinema-going crowd was treated to two phenomenal movies that changed our cinema history forever.
Buhari’s anti- corruption war room needs an adult with a whip
We can excuse the police. The police have not had time to join the fight against corruption. Or perhaps they have not had the guile to pretend to be involved. We have seen the DSS. The way they took on the judges you would think that they would have emptied the country of corrupt senior civil servants and compelled a few senior police officers into prudent early retirement.
