Not Winning Is Un-Nigerian #NigeriaParticipationNotMedals is a meme that could soon trend online as a feel-good factor of compensation for Nigeria’s poor performance in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Nigerians need cheering up, lots of it. A haul of medals from the Olympics could have given Nigerians much needed respite from…
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Corruption
Soyinka: Cryptic Interpreter
Soyinka: Cryptic Interpreter The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka is an exercise in expanding the awareness of the realities of postcolonial Nigeria. We cannot understand Nigeria as a linear story like Cinderella or Macbeth. The story of Nigeria in the postcolonial era is beyond plot. Postcolonial Nigeria is an endless stream…
Corruption
Nigeria: Underestimating Revolution
Nigeria: Underestimating Revolution Not till a revolution happens do men believe in it. – Confucius. When money stops flowing in the streets blood will flow in the streets. – Gerald Celente. When Nigerian activist, Yele Sowore, declared Tinubu’s election as president would hasten Nigeria’s much needed revolution many thought it…
Corruption
Nigeria: New Golden Age?
Nigeria: New Golden Age? President Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants to return Nigeria to its Golden Age of former times. We would all love that, except it reminds us of Buhari’s promise to revalue the Naira till it becomes at par with the US Dollar. It happened and we enjoyed it….
Corruption
Peter Obi – Obasanjo’s Hope?
Peter Obi – Obasanjo’s Hope? Or Nigeria’s hope? One should ask what does the support of former generals, ethnocultural groups, and other political heavyweights in the land mean for Peter Obi’s campaign? Peter Obi has earned phenomenal popularity through fostering Nigeria’s first popular democratic movement since the 1950s. That was…
Corruption
Nigeria: Disjointed Economic Sectors
Nigeria: Disjointed Economic Sectors No agreement today, no agreement tomorrow – Fela Kuti Capable societies are those that have enforceable institutions of public value, while incapable societies lack them at national and local levels. Such nations are mainly in the Global North. It is easy to identify nations in the…
Corruption
Does National Security Expire?
Does National Security Expire? The Anarchy The anarchy brewing in Nigeria is near complete. Noting the security problem in Nigeria is dire is not news. It has become a daily and worsening fact. Wear is Nigeria’s national security? No one person or institution is safe from violence in the country…
Culture as Institution
Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?
Are Vice Chancellors to Blame? The ASUU Strike of 2022 is raising important questions and responses we must not dodge. Market reforms now demand Vice Chancellors should raise tens of billions of naira annually to fund their universities. Otherwise they are not fit for purpose. Really? Are Vice Chancellors to…
Governance
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6 The Final Target “Nigeria needs its public research universities and teaching hospitals despite the plans of the government. It’s a non-negotiable necessity.” How true is it that the private sector can run universities better than the public sector? A classic globalisation policy,…
Governance
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5
The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5 The Second Target “The neglect of a child is abuse; a nation’s neglect of its youth is wilful filicide.” The other target of the Government of Nigeria that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is striking over is the fate and…