“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 […]

“I saw not victory after the war, but a new and happier world after the victory” – John Buchan EVEN while prosecuting the Civil War, General Yakubu Gowon was thinking about how to win the peace that would inevitably ensue. In a radio broadcast to the nation on October 1, 1970, he outlined a nine-point programme […]

“I saw not victory after the war, but a new and happier world after the victory” – John Buchan Nation-building is an arduous task requiring great patience, intrepid courage and sagacity. It also requires an expansive disposition that accommodates diversity and differences of viewpoints and ideas. Aggregating diversity and achieving uniformity marks the culmination of a […]

“The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents”, –  Edward Gibbon Knight-errants in shining armour do occasionally canter out of the horizon, not from the pages of some romantic fantasy novels, but from necessity and historical vicissitudes, to rescue not maidens in distress, but their countries from calamities and ambitious adventurers. It was precisely […]

“But for General Gowon, Nigeria would not have been as it is today” –   Major-General Paul C. Tarfa  THE role of the individual in history has been explored by historians and philosophers alike over the ages. Thucydides, Polybius, Tacitus, Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, Ahmed Ibn Fartuwa, Edward Gibbon, Georgi Plekhanov, Thomas Carlyle, and many others, have […]

“More haste, less speed”” –  English proverb THERE are no quick fixes in respond ing to a calamity of such a magnitude. Deliberate and systematic approaches must be taken towards remedying the situations as they unfold. Cool heads, stout hearts and solid visions of the future are needed, especially from the leadership and all those […]

“And We (Allah) caused streams to spring from the earth. Therefore, the waters from the earth and the heavens joined for a matter predetermined (long before)” – The Holy Qur’an (54:12) IF a disaster of such magnitude had happened in China, President Xi Jinping himself and members of the Communist Party of China, CPC, Politburo would […]

The underlying as well as visible problems that the Nigerian economic system has brought about consist of the disparities in access to resources and the share of wealth among Nigerians.

“Our controversies have been cluttered by squabbles”- V. I. Lenin PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu was perceptive and candid enough to acknowledge the economic nature of the challenges facing Nigeria today when he replied to “The Patriots” demand to abrogate the 1999 Constitution, enact a new one and adopt the report of the 2014 National Conference. […]