“Economics have an awkward way of overriding all other considerations“–  John Buchan Recapitulating on previous  experiences will definitely give us the direction towards which we can posit an argument whether we should be optimistic or otherwise about Nigeria’s present and future prospects. For, without a recourse to past experiences, the ability to make an informed […]

“For let the truth be spoken“-  Joseph Conrad In my piece titled “The Lethargy of the Oppressed”, previously published in this column, I reflected on the character of our citizens that have proved detrimental and even injurious to the construction of a progressive and respectable nation. I discussed the pitfalls of our character as a nation […]

“The formulation of a question is its solution”- Karl Marx It is little wonder that the “revelations” by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on the “mind-boggling” corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, that he revealed during a hearing of the Public Accounts Committees of […]

“Finally condemned in a verdict of contemptuous dislike”-Joseph Conrad We have witnessed the gradual erosion of the rule of law at the international level and the systematic dismantling of global institutional capacities to enforce the law when it comes to certain acts that are inimical to the maintenance of world peace and order. The great perpetrators […]

“Intolerance begets intolerance and injury breeds injury” — Sir Richard F. Burton There were moments in history when the idea of international law was discarded in favour of unilateral acts that were conceived to advance the interests of certain classes of people in some countries. Law, legality, morality and justice, are inconvenient facts that have stood in […]