The Supreme Court and national interest: The judiciary as a public-policy institution (2), by Usman Sarki
“The essence of federalism is full mutual consent.” — John Buchan Recalling Nigeria’s history in this discourse matters because the country is not an ordinary political community or mere contraption, as some advocates of restructuring erroneously imagine. It comprises peoples of deep consciousness, immense diversity in language, religion, culture, historical experience and political organisation, who […]
WORLD BANK: Maybe the right man won!
The Nigerian government propaganda machine quickly succeeded in generating media frenzy in the campaign for our current Finance Minister, who also doubles with powerful portfolio of Coordinating Minister for the Economy.
El Clasico Nigeriana
On Saturday, the football world stood still for what is being referred to as the greatest club match in the world, Barcelona against Real Madrid, dubbed and rightly too as El Clasico.
UNEMPLOYMENT: The calamity and paradoxes – 2
This was followed in a few days by heart-breaking report of the results of JAMB examinations. Together, they point to a bleak future, which follows inexorably on a dreadful present and a woeful past about the quality of secondary school leavers the nation had been producing for more than twenty years.
On the integrity of Nigerian literary prizes
There is no innocent literary prize just as no writing is innocent and free of value. Every piece of writing is a political act, and every prize made to a writer is an act of validation and an expression of a given value – the specific and subjective value of the awarding institution. It has very little universal meaning.
St Jonathan Cathedral of Otuoke
“This world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel”. Horace Walpole, 1676-1745.
