A compelling case for second tenure of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Students of American political history would be consensus ad idem with me that it was the "New Deal" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) of the United States of America (USA)1933 to 1945, that recalibrated the American political economy, redefined the relationship between the government and the masses of the people, and indeed , actualized the programmes of the welfare state as theorized by the nobel winning John Maynard Keynes.
Reviving Nigerian boxing: Lessons from Paris 2024
Nigeria should establish a consistent boxing squad instead of selecting team members at the last minute for international events
Women, protests and collective action
Folasade Tinubu-Ojo, daughter of President Bola Tinubu, recently urged market women to advise their children against participating in the August hunger protest
Prof Wole Soyinka at 90: A gala of high commendations and dissections
By Godknows Igali On Friday July 13, 1934, contrasting events unfolded around the world. Far away in Europe, Adolf Hitler launched the “Night of Long Knives” in Germany, causing great global unease and rapple. But in British West Africa, a bouncing baby boy, later named Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, was born in Abeokuta, in the […]
Hardship protest, Portable and the ‘a-loot-ers’
By OLUDAYO TADE IT was Habeeb Okikiola also known as ‘Portable’, who released a single to respond to the call by his supporters that he should join the #EndBadGovernance protest that hit the streets across the country on August 1, 2024. In the single track, titled ‘Gba wire’, Portable informs his fans that ‘poor man’s thinking […]
Ukrainian drone discovery in Mali raising red flags over involvement with terrorists
The recent unearthing of a drone in Mali’s northeastern region has ignited a firestorm of controversy, drawing attention to the potential influence of foreign powers in West Africa’s volatile security landscape.
