By Annabel Ogheneganre Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, that is crabs in a bucket mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a mentality of which people will try and prevent others from gaining a favourable position in something, even if it has no effect on those trying to stop them. It is a way […]

As part of efforts to address challenges facing Nigeria’s farmers including limited access to funding, technology, and markets and achieve food security, the Federal Government has launched the Young Farmers Network and Cooperative Society.

By Magnus Onyibe “I am ready to let go, let the NNPC buy me out, run the refinery. They have labeled me a monopolist. That’s an incorrect and unfair allegation, but it’s okay. If they buy me out, at least their so-called monopolist would be out of the way.” The statement of defiance above was […]

By NICK DAZANG WHEN things go awry or fall apart, we rue the present. We long for an idyllic past. We become nostalgic and we beckon unto the past, in which things seemed to have worked in harmony, to succour and comfort ourselves. Such previous tranquility contrasts sharply with the raucous dysfunction of the present. This […]

By KINGSLEY AKAM Afrocentric colonialism represents a troubling and insidious form of oppression within Africa-one that is orchestrated not by foreign powers but by African leaders themselves. Despite the continent’s struggle for independence and the subsequent narrative of neo-colonialism, the root cause of Africa’s persistent challenges lies within its own leadership.  This idea, which I […]