Monday Column

Monday Column

NMMA Awards: Nigeria’s Pulitzer prizes?

When Joseph Pulitzer conceived the now famous awards of the same name in 1904, he wanted the original four prizes in journalism to represent, variousl

What are Nigeria’s problems?

What are the three biggest problems that Nigeria faces? What is the single biggest problem of the country? Which are the most pressing problems that a

Michel Foucault in Nigeria

French philosopher and historian of ideas, Michel Foucault, who died of complications from AIDS in 1984, was one of the most original and controversia

As direct primaries beckon

Historians have long debated how epochal changes in society occur. Some think that social change happens mainly through ‘big bang’ events such as wars

Our blame-game culture

One way to describe Nigeria is call it a ‘blame-game’ country. Everyone is blaming another for everything, and the solution to any situation is to lam