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If nothing, but for compassionate and humanitarian reasons, the Lagos State government could have been more circumspect, considering the illegality and unconstitutionality of its forced deportation of beggars to their…
Professor Paul Collier of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford is indeed an accomplished academic of global repute. However, I have found myself…
The Nation Newspaper in its edition of August 8, 2013 published a shocking and mischief-laden editorial with the title, “Tin god.” It was a brazen, jaundiced, politically motivated and malicious…
Against mounting international apprehension over the re-election of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe in elections roundly condemned by the international community as a farce, the conclusion by former president Olusegun Obasanjo who…
There has been so much brouhaha in the Nigerian media, including print and the electronic media especially some private bloggers who recently out of either malice or ignorance have presented…
The world over, non-governmental organisations, NGOs, are agencies or social movements that open up the liberal political space, engender equalisation of opportunities, improve the circumstances of disadvantaged peoples and institutions…
William Hazlitt in his book says ” the least pain in our finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions”. Selfishness is the key here. The…
It had looked like it would never come even after the letters had been written and the relevant documents submitted. But after months of controversy, scheming, intrigues, accusations and counter-accusations…
All through last week, radio channels in Lagos with phone-in programmes were jammed with conversations regarding the reported ‘deportation’ of 67 Nigerians of Igbo extraction from Lagos to the East,…
Very often we say it is unimportant where the next president comes from, what should be paramount is his ability and capacity to deliver democracy dividends. But we are compelled…
