Until a few years ago, Africa Rising was a dominant theme in conversations about the global economy. That enthusiasm has since cooled, so that in newsrooms and think tanks and conference panels, “Africa Rising!” has given way to a more questioning “Africa Rising?”

ONE of the finest economic thinkers the world ever saw, John Maynard Keynes, succinctly submitted, and I concur, that “The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead “. You wouldn’t need to consult any oracle to reveal the realities of our current affairs when we have as good indicators a pocket and a stomach.

THERE is need to urgently call out the false premises advanced in a back page article of a national newspaper of Monday January 9, 2016 for the obvious reason that it risks misleading Nigerians to docilely accept a country where big corporations call the shots.

Clearly something has gone horribly wrong and this reinforces my belief that the amalglamation of the northern and southern regions of Nigeria in 1914 was not just a mistake but a demonically-inspired, craftily- contrived and premeditated satanic conspiracy by the British to destroy the greatness and enormous human potentials of the people of the south and the Middle Belt of Nigeria.

F emi Mimiko, most recently of Harvard University and a professor of political science at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, diagnoses the change of baton at the United States White House

President Muhammadu Buhari wants to intervene in The Gambia to prevent a breakdown of law and order which will lead to a humanitarian crisis.

Nigerians should be aware that while we endorse president Buhari’s Security and Corruption challenges, it is the National Assembly that has the challenge to usher in very urgently a restructured system of governance for more viable economic challenges

Nobody has faulted that judgment on points of law. Nobody has even discussed it!

It is most disheartening when government spends public funds on frivolities amidst one of the toughest economic downturns Nigeria has ever witnessed. The proposed verification of Nigerian pensioners in the Diaspora by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) falls into this category.

AN Igbo proverb says that if a man knows a thing that will bring confusion and trouble let him refrain from doing it.

The law profession is one where seniority is treated with the highest regard in appointments and practice. It flows from the National Judicial Council, NJC, the highest policy making organ for the law profession.