Global Connection

Global Connection

Where are Nigeria’s sociologists (II)

Continued from last week. We have a big problem on our hands with this grazing/farmers issue. We are used to easy problems but this one won’t be

Where are Nigeria’s sociologists ? (I)

I recall Nigeria’s ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo ‘slagging off’ people who studied sociology and history. I was alarmed then, becau

Vision is what we lacked, and still do (II)

Continued from last week The mismanagement of our freedom was an endemic issue; it happened west, south, east and north, and perhaps puts a lie to the

Vision is what we lacked, and still do (I)

I like to bust myths. I like to interrogate what people have accepted as received wisdom. And this I do by thinking critically about issues. At the ba

Old, dying board members and Nigeria’s public sector opportunities

I insist that for Nigeria to move forward, what we need is first a strong public sector that works – and this we must achieve. We need to expand