Wednesday Column

Wednesday Column

Island of phantasmagoria

You don’t necessarily have to be hit by high fever to be transported, as if in a trance, to the island of phantasmagoria where all the unimaginable ha

Let’s all collaborate to kill corruption

It has been said that power corrupts, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.  In a country like Nigeria, the power to govern the people is vested on o

Karl Marx’s opium to the rescue

In 1843 Karl Marx, a German philosopher, economists and historian, wrote what later became his celebrated dictum: “Religion is the opium of the people

Adventurers and risk-takers

It is not unlikely that the limitations at the levels of governance in the nation are creating wider spaces for subversive non-state actors to push us

Bandits & herdsmen’s mystery

The terms bandits and herdsmen – used casually, sometimes thoughtlessly but often interchangeably – have continued to pose a riddle of sor