The Nigerian state, by necessity and its very essence, should be the guarantor of the well-being and welfare of all Nigerians without exception or discrimination. The doctrine of the state and its principal purposes as outlined in Chapter 2 of the 1999 constitution, provide the normative frameworks on which the provision of services to Nigerians […]

“Without such a retrospect a people will live in a crude present, and, having no buttress from the past, will fare badly from the rough winds of life” – John Buchan The rough winds of life, the crude present of lost opportunities, disappointed hopes and shattered dreams which are the everyday experiences of many Nigerians, have marked […]

“Nigeria faces serious environmental challenges, including deforestation, desertification, coastal erosion, flooding, pollution and many other negative impacts of climate change. Lake Chad continues to shrink every year. These issues threaten the livelihoods of millions of Nigerians”— PIresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In this final installment in the series of articles on the Lake Chad, it is […]

“There is nothing which contributes more to the making of our undertakings prosperous than the taking of times and opportunities; for time carries with it the seasons of opportunities of business. If you let them slip, all your designs are rendered unsuccessful”. The time has come and the opportunity is available for the problem of the Lake […]

“The right perspective asserts itself” -E. D. Morel The corridors of governments in Africa are littered with the frag ments of abandoned policies and the debris of aborted projects. Existential projects like water transfers do not readily find acceptance either because they seem too costly or are inherently long-term in nature, thus, liable to be […]

“The Lake Chad Basin is an important source of fresh water on which more than 40  million people in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria depend.” -African Review of Business and Technology, 26th February, 2018 The international dimension of saving Lake Chad has seen the commitment of various actors to this singular […]

“Until the 1960s, Lake Chad was the fourth largest lake in Africa and the sixth largest lake in the world: however, its surface area has since dwindled from 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 square miles) in 1963 to less than 1,500 square kilometers (150 square miles), or about 5% of its original area” -Lakepedia There is […]

“”There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright”“- President Theodore Roosevelt  The Picture of Dorian […]

“As in most things great and noble, an intelligent forethought is needed”-John Buchan An intelligent and persuasive fore thought on the constitutional arrangement that best suits the Nigerian condition at this day and age is surely needed more than anything else. The eruption of pent-up emotions and needless disarray in thought given rise to by […]

“Where premises are misunderstood inferences must be unsound”-James Bryce IN general, the methodology of so cial or political discourses in Nigeria must not be allowed to be driven or dictated by unsubstantiated premises. In like manner, the calls for the review of the Constitution should be dictated by the viewpoints and interests of the generality […]

“Our estimate of personal merit, is relative to the common faculties of mankind“-Edward Gibbon Every age has its manners, and its heroes, anti-heroes and villains. In ours, the anti-heroes and villains preponderate, while the heroes are becoming rarer and far between. At a time when good taste and exquisite manners are desperately lacking among both men […]

“Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby“-Karl Marx PRESUMABLY, Vice President Kamala Harris went into the elections believing that being a woman, she had an equal right to clinch the presidency of the United States of America as any man would have. She never imagined […]

The class struggle is fought in the United States not in the streets of New York or the back alleys of Detroit or Seattle, but in the stock exchanges, the electoral colleges and the chatrooms of big media houses. The opposing gladiators are not workers and capitalists up in arms against each other, but people […]

“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 […]

“Little by little however, the process of generalisation takes effect” – Georgi Plekhanov THE process of generalisation is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse on the typology of governments in the sense of their being “good” or “bad”. This article seeks to contextualise the approach to examining governance from a particular ideological standpoint that seeks […]