Wednesday Column

Wednesday Column

Omicron: Throwing the Baby with The Bath Water

Imagine you are living in an apartment building or estate with several other people of different ethnic groups, race and religion. You install fancy s

Challenges of France in Africa

By Victor C. Ariole   Jean-Luc Antoin Pierre Mélenchon, the President of a French party known as “France Insoumise” translated as “France Unbowed

Coups in Francophone Africa: Imperialism without an empire?

By Akinyemi Oyawale On the 5th of September (this year), I received a WhatsApp message with a link from a friend which conveyed the tragic but quite c

Musings over the rush to launch the eNaira

By Nasiru Aminu   The country was cheerful when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced it would be piloting its version of the central bank

Let’s scrutinize eNaira with magnifying glass

If a bank chief executive who died in the 1990s wakes up and walks into a banking hall today, he would furiously disagree with today’s bank chief exec