Opinion

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2022 is likely to make or break Nigeria

From all indications, the coming year 2022, promises to be a pressure cooker for Nigeria. All the contradictions and issues we have glossed over as a

Your nyama-nyama, not ours: A brief history of the dirty politics of pandemics

Sometime in March 1918, while the first World War ravaged Europe, a US soldier, Albert Gitchell, a company cook at Fort Riley, in Kansas was going abo

The cow does not need oil

By Ahmadu Shehu, Ph.D.   It is true that the large chunk of Nigeria’s export comes from oil and that Nigeria depends to a great extent on this co

Rethinking Nigeria’s economic policy, if we truly have one

To fail to plan is to plan to fail. This is a common slogan that many people quote in making arguments for developing a strategy towards achieving the

Lessons from Gbajabiamila’s leadership training for the youth

By Musa Abdullahi Krishi   The foundation of every nation is the education of its youth. – Diogenes The youth, as it is often said, are the