June 12, democracy and A Resilient People
Today, I join millions of Nigerians across the country and in the diaspora to commemorate June 12 – a day…
Enugu Smart Green Schools: Turning aspiration into reality
NDI Enugu, I bring you very warm greetings, a day we usher in a new epoch in the history of…
Disinformation as threat to civil service function in post-truth world
LATELY, and in keeping faith with my research commitments, I had posed for myself the research question: what is that…
Domesticating sustainable development goal 16 in Nigeria: Peace, justice and strong institutions
I must hasten to thank the organisers of this very important conference for the thematic preference, ostensibly dictated by current…
Afe Babalola: How a tree made a forest
WE all fall in love with proverbs and sayings of the wise and consider them building blocks for personal as…
Who wants to ‘ruga’ Nigeria?
First it was political sharia. Then islamist Boko Haram. Then terrorist Fulani herdsmen. And now Ruga cow settlements. Nigeria has…
Walking the talk on the Almajiri conundrum
“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X
Rethinking June 12th, Democracy Day and Nigeria’s dance of death
JUNE 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day, had been marked but I have some home truths to tell. The struggle for…
Stomach infrastructure and Nigeria’s emergent political culture
One of the most interesting features of Nigeria’s political environment is the rate at which it generates concepts, idioms and…
