On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford
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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was in the news for all the wrong reasons in the year 2020. The agency that was established 20 years ago to bring development

Nigerians are playing with COVID-19, and in so doing, they are playing with fire and death. Why are we so blest and yet so suicidal? When the index case of

My favourite end-of-the-year quote, which I have shared with many others, is the following passage from Chapter 3 of the inimitable Chinua Achebe’s Things Falls Apart, a novel of monumental,

Sam Nda-Isaiah, our friend and colleague who died the other day, aged 58, will certainly be remembered as one of

The Nigerian government deregulated the downstream petroleum sector with effect from March 19, 2020. The key argument was that the

“My brother, how you dey?” “What can we do?” “E ku recession” “Excuse me?” “I said er ku recession…” “Are

If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for

The most exhilarating part of the US Presidential election 2020 is the fact that President Trump lost the election. It