Saying it as it is (3)
By Douglas Anele Many Nigerians are wondering why more than three weeks since the current fuel scarcity began nobody has been sanctioned. Maybe what is playing out is the sacred cow syndrome in which certain individuals because of their connections with people in power can do anything and get away with it, which is why […]
How Nigerians oppress Nigerians (1)
The caption of our discussion today is cloned from Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, but its major thrust is not the recurrent problem of underdevelopment in Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan is not the messiah
On a cool Friday evening, a few days after President Goodluck Jonathan had unilaterally proposed a name-change for the University of Lagos, I went to the Senior Staff Club to relax a little after spending over six hours working on a research paper I was writing.
Is President Goodluck Jonathan now Emperor Badluck Jonathan? (1)
A lot have been said and written since President Goodluck Jonathan renamed my alma mater, the University of Lagos, as Moshood Abiola University on May 29, ostensibly to honour Chief M.K.O. Abiola. According to Jonathan, the federal government believes that the late businessman cum politician deserves “recognition for his martyrdom and public spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.”
Is President Goodluck Jonathan now Emperor Badluck Jonathan? (1)
A lot have been said and written since President Goodluck Jonathan renamed my alma mater, the University of Lagos, as Moshood Abiola University on May 29, ostensibly to honour Chief M.K.O. Abiola. According to Jonathan, the federal government believes that the late businessman cum politician deserves “recognition for his martyrdom and public spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.”
Man as a being-towards-death: An essay in memory of Prof. A.B. Sofoluwe
On a cool Saturday morning of May 12, as I was jogging along the Health Centre road, University of Lagos, Mr. Adebule, a senior administrative staff of the university parked by my side and beckoned me to come. When I got to him, he requested in a very solemn voice that I should enter his car. I asked him why, and he told me that my friend, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adetokumbo Sofoluwe, died around 12 midnight.
