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Tinubu’s brain versus Obi’s brain

Tinubu’s brain versus Obi’s brain

By Onu Onwe The soapbox is a tempting platform. The politician and other users of it who utilize it to deliver an opinion may be seduced by the spontaneity it offers to say that which may be out of sync with their actual reasoning or intention. That is why the soapbox is a dangerous place […]
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The political class and the democracy project

The political class and the democracy project

By Nick Dazang IN 1992, Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History And The Last Man. It was a philosophical tour de force. The book brought Fukuyama into reckoning and catapulted him to the league of such intellectual giants as his former teacher at Harvard University, Samuel P.  Huntington(co-founder of Foreign Policy and author of […]

The DSS: An intelligence agency or an arm of a campaign

The DSS: An intelligence agency or an arm of a campaign

By Charles Ogbu ON March 29, 2023, the Department of State Services, DSS, claimed to have identified some political actors involved in a plot to install an interim government. According to the statement signed by Peter Afunanya, the spokesperson of the Spy Agency, the plot is “not only an aberration but a mischievous way to […]

Reimagining Education in Nigeria: Task before new administration

Reimagining Education in Nigeria: Task before new administration

“Education should be free, at least up to a certain level. Primary and secondary education should be free and of good quality. It should not only be free, but also compulsory, as the quality of education received by today’s children and adolescents determines the quality of a nation’s future.”