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Nigeria hosts Nyerere’s one-party ghost

It was almost impossible not to be infected by the joy writ large on the face of the One-party state…

5 days ago

Mike Adenuga at 72

Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr. is like the proverbial elephant whose revelation to different persons is according to their perception of…

6 days ago

Nigerian leaders as CBEX Ponzi chancers

On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis,…

2 weeks ago

Tell Your Papa as spirit of Rwanda’s Simon Bikindi

In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United…

3 weeks ago

Olunloyo: Goodnight, Voltaire

  At his ancient 'imperial' home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a…

3 weeks ago

Profiling Natasha as Segilola, Sweetheart of 1001 men

Sorry, I digress. Gradually, the Nigerian presidency is putting finishing touches to its own sculpture of a village liar, Ìbídùn,…

4 weeks ago

MultiChoice’s price hike

There doesn’t seem to be two ways of articulating the Nigerian situation today other than that the people are hurting…

1 month ago

‘Our Doc, who art in the National Palace’

On April 23, 1971, the New York Times did a feature on Haitian tyrant, Francois Duvalier, infamously known as Papa…

1 month ago

Tinubu is the law!

“Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works…

1 month ago

When bandits took over Ondo State

Ondo State was in the news for the bad reason last week. A gale of killings, kidnapping and demand for…

2 months ago

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