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Restructuring Nigeria: A response and contribution to a discussion by Professor Jega

Professor Attahiru Jega’s recent presentation on ‘Restructuring Nigeria’…

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The continuing menace of police brutality

Few days ago, around 22nd July, 2020, the…

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Memo to NBA on Governor El-Rufai

The perceived ‘exodus’ and self-deregistration on the part…

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Managing Nigeria’s biodiversity

Nigeria is faced with a growing challenge in…

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Adekunle Rasak
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Lessons from Sudan and Hong Kong

IF Sudan and Hong Kong should visit Nigeria…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi
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The states are dying

THERE is a hardly a day that goes…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi
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Curriculum as expression of our national value

As a keynote speaker at SOAS University London…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi
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The option A4 deal

As the 2023 politics heats up, desperate intrigues,…

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Adekunle Rasak
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Enduring legacies of Ayinla Omowura

BUT for the pandemic Covid-19 ravaging the whole…

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Adekunle Rasak

A new leadership cadre for Nigeria

ONCE in a while the unexpected happens in…

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Adekunle Rasak
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Edo gov election: The task before INEC chairman

DEAR Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the forthcoming governorship election…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi

Police involvement in civil matters: Clarity at last?

THE dream: The Nigerian Police. Effective. Well resourced.…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi
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My Oga at the top and the University of Lagos

The year 2020 has been a most unusual…

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Ifedayo Ogunyemi
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General Babangida @ 79

TODAY marks the anniversary of the birth of…

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A productive way to keep varsity students busy

SINCE the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) began to take…

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Who can stop Obaseki?

DURING the past four years, Edo State has…

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Edo 2020: The Challenges of Obaseki

The wind of operational structures sowed in 2016…

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Prof. Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe: Time to say goodbye

One of the most illustrious sons of Nigeria…

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Of COVID-19 and public/private collaboration in FCT

RECENTLY, there was an urgent need for a…

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Dinner with Oba Adetoyese Laoye 

Palace memories: Dinner with Oba Adetoyese Laoye 

It was 1971 shortly after the Nigerian civil…

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