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Nigeria, Africa and the Trump challenge

From his antecedents, we did not need to read the tea leaves to know that President Donald Trump of America would give Africa the short shrift in his

An Oputa panel on Boko Haram, please?

Nigeria and Nigerians have been battling with the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East since at least 2009. That’s 15 years of the most brutal arme

Compulsory voting is a misnomer

In Nigeria, it appears that our leaders are obsessed with creating all sorts of laws using the instrument of power at their disposal without necessari

A relaxing thought

I remember learning in chemistry class that a chemical reaction will always find equilibrium, usually at the cost of something else—a catalyst. Equili

Adieu, Sam Nujoma, ‘Father of the Nation’

“The character of every people enlarges with its enfranchisement from a foreign yoke.” – Karl Marx   Marxian dialectics, the historical-mat