We must think outside the box. For some reason we have been unable to think beyond OA Lawal, that ‘Government’ textbook in secondary school that defined how everything every system of government should be… theoretically. We failed to read that book in the context of history, and we treated the study of ‘government’ like a...
I was graciously invited to a political meeting recently in Abuja. I hadn’t been to such in a while and of course, my political interest in Nigeria is waning, but not my interest in Nigeria herself. In such meetings where there are quite a number of individuals with heavy political credentials in their own rights,...
(TRANSCRIBED AND ABRIDGED BY TOPE FASUA) No one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this assembly; there has been nothing like it in history. When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past; print, the steam engine, aviation, the atomic age, I think of new...
After the rain comes the sun. And by extension, after the sun comes the rain. Economists have always believed in the boom and bust cycle, sometimes as a routine behavior of economies, but sometimes due to the external factors, such as wars, diseases, epidemics, pandemics, or on the flip side, discoveries of new medicines, new...
I listened to the paramount ruler of Somolu today as he expressed support for Sunday Igboho, very eloquently, and as he foreclosed the idea of the Yorubas continuing with the Nigerian entity. The Oba called it a war of independence (ija’gbara in Yoruba language). But he launched into deep history (especially of Lisabi and the...
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