Governor Oborevwori and the triangular tide
By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in built and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide.There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when viewed […]
Gov Peter Obi and record of public debt in Anambra
By Law Mefor Our attention has been drawn to a viral post by a former Governor of Anambra, HE Mr. Peter Obi, CON, on what he described as “Phantom Debts and Ecological Loan Fallacy”, which presumably was in response to some statements in a podcast by the Anambra State Commissioner for Finance. We understand that […]
Why Africa’s debt crisis Is really a development crisis
By Steve Aborisade Increasingly, governments across Africa are making an impossible choice. They must decide whether the next available dollar goes to servicing foreign debts or to funding hospitals, schools, roads, food security, and creating jobs. Steadily, debt repayments come first. This is no longer an occasional fiscal emergency. It has become the normal condition […]
Tiger Woods, DUI and the jungle called American justice
By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA There are names that sound like destiny, and there are names that sound like a prophecy waiting to happen. Tiger Woods belongs to the latter category. A tiger belongs in the woods. That much nature has settled. But when a tiger ventures into the human jungle—especially behind the steering wheel—the story can […]
When the state turns the law against dissent under Tinubu’s watch
By KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN It is happening again. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigerians are facing an increasingly repressive political and legal environment. Like the Muhammadu Buhari government before it, the Tinubu administration is making an utter mockery of Nigeria’s constitutional and international obligations to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law. There is something […]
Jason Arday and Black Scholarship: What has gone wrong with the Academy?
By Tunji Olaopa What is the existential status of blackness in a world of extreme racism? More concretely, how does a black scholar, as a minority, navigate her way through a systemic racial configuration of the academy? Racism has become a systemic and systematic phenomenon that inflects so many dimensions and ways of lives of […]
