FOR some time now, the detention and arraignment of under-age protesters by the Police dominated conversations at home and abroad. In August, a nationwide protest against the harsh economic policies preferred by the federal administration led by President Bola Tinubu began, tagged #EndBadGovernance. Largely driven by social media conversations, organisers sought to mobilise the populace to […]

A FEW hours after Donald Trump proclaimed victory over Kamala Harris in the United States, US, presidential election, groups in the Caribbean and Latin America met virtually to discuss the future. Convened by the ten-country Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA Movimientos, the participants on the Wednesday, November, 6, 2024, focused on the […]

ON Wednesday, November 6, Donald Trump, the 45th U.S. President, pulled off what, to all intents and purposes, is an extraordinary political comeback – an exceptional feat that has catapulted him once again to the enviable position of the president-in-waiting. On January 20, 2025, he will take another oath of office as the 47th U.S. President. […]

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank have long struck a raw nationalistic nerve in Nigerians. Romantic patriotism drives the nationalistic urge to reject any perceived IMF/World Bank ‘interference’. Several years ago, as a magazine publisher, I interviewed Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, then finance minister under General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, when he stopped over […]

Have you ever felt excluded at your workplace because of the way you were addressed? If so, you are not alone. Does your workplace have a wide array of persons from different cultures and backgrounds? If so, the words you choose can have a profound impact on creating an inclusive atmosphere where everyone feels valued and […]

When former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, marked his 90th birthday on October 19, he was celebrated far and wide by both friends and foes. He was a war-time dictator and could not be expected not to have those who love him and others who still have an axe to grind with him for his […]

“Everything depends upon the course of social development and on the relation of social forces” -Georgi Plekhanov THE advancement of social development and the transformation of the conditions in a given country that favours the strengthening of social forces should be the highest purpose of governance. This, of course, is subject to the collective advancement […]

NIGERIA is trending around the world for the wrong reason, as usual. This time, it has to do with the arraignment of minors in an Abuja High Court for alleged treasonable offences, with possible death sentences or life in prison. The #EndBadGovernance protests that took place in August this year was peaceful and orderly in parts […]

The beginning of Space Space begins where Earth’s atmosphere thins and gives way to the near-vacuum of outer space. The exact boundary is difficult to pinpoint, but a widely accepted demarcation is the Kármán line, situated about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above sea level.  Named after Physicist Theodore von Kármán, this altitude is where the atmosphere […]

On a day that Dr Raymond Dokpesi should have been 73 penultimate week, he wasn’t around because he had gone on a long trip. But his friends still came in his absence to speak some kind words as befitting reminiscences for the life of a good man whose memory should be kept alive in perpetuity. In […]

American political scientists John W Spanier and Robert L. Wendzel published a book in 1972, which they called Games Nations Play. In the book, they likened international relations to a game of chess played by various state actors who often disguise their real intentions in each move they make.  I have adapted John Spanier’s title because […]

A military officer who was Nigeria’s Aviation Minister between 1985 and 1993 during the Ibrahim Babangida years once made a remark that resonated sharply in the air: air travel, he said, was a luxury not meant for the poor. His words, brimming with indifference, sparked public outrage. Now, more than three decades later, that same sky […]

From last week continues the narrative of how  the Federal Electoral Commission on August 17, 1979 declared Alhaji Shehu Shagari as the winner of the presidential election, Chief Awolowo’s petition which ended at the Supreme Court presided over by  Justice Atanda Fatai Williams who was later appointed as the Chief Justice of the Federation by […]

By Dele Sobowale I am delighted to announce here today that just three days ago, the African Development Bank board of directors approved $100 million for the establishment of the Youth Entrepreneurship Investment Bank for Nigeria.” — Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank for Africa, AIDB, Friday, October 18, 2024. All the people […]

A shocked world watched as the Nigerian government exhibited in court at least 28 malnourished and unkempt children it has kept in prison and detention centres for three months for allegedly engaging in public protests.   The children are charged in blatant violation of Section 204 of the Child Rights Act of 2003 which states […]