Catapulted by numerous items on my mind – very much unlike Wole Soyinka in his own seminal work, THE MAN DIED, when he was ‘prompted by...
“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonourably, foolishly, viciously.” ― Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot Till the rivers run dry and...
Thomas Hobbes, legendary political theorist, in his classics, Leviathan (1651) opined that “during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in...
By Sylvester Idowu, Warri Chief Ayiri Emami, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has boasted that the ruling party will win the 2023 presidential...
There was an outcry last week when Ebubeagu Operatives, a security outfit formed by the Imo State Government killed some suspected gunmen. Some people came out...
I must confess that the above title was inspired by Eric Donaldson’s song, ‘Land of My Birth’, from his hit reggae album, Kent Village, released in...
Is education a fraud? “Very not at all?” That was Fela’s parlance of a negative answer to the above question. In other words, education isn’t a...
The primaries of Nigerian political parties for the selection of candidates for 2023 General Elections have come and gone, leaving a trail of national dyspepsia of...
In January 2019, the Daily Trust newspaper had its Maiduguri office shut down by the military over its reportage on the fight against insurgency. This made...
The common accreditation known to man which does not need the approval accreditation of the Nigeria Universities Commission is that thinking is a Jewel in any...