Our people are too easily played by politicians and some of us are trying to understand why. Should we ascribe being led by the nose by political demagogues who exploit …
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With just a month or two left for us to go to the polls to elect those who would determine our future in the next four years, Nigerians have witnessed …
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I used to teach the SATs. And one of the modules that gave my students the greatest problem is the one known as ‘critical reading’. The students were getting those …
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Dear Mr. Ambassador, I would have loved to write this letter to you in pidgin, on my company’s letter head and mail it to your embassy. The reason I wanted …
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Morality and governance are Siamese twins. You cannot separate the one from the other. Try and separate the one from the other and you lose both of them. Even though …
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I have just read of a call by a very important politician in Southwestern Nigeria, asking the Federal government to declare a state of emergency in the education sector. He …
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Some enlightened people in our country today who hold very strong opinions about government hold those opinions because of the strong position taken by Jean Jacques Rousseau. This thinker of …
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I do not believe that the ‘outbreak’ of the virus here in Nigeria was a happenstance. I believe that the drama we are all watching and which is being presented …
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A common issue concerning the distribution of the things we all aspire to in our country has been a denominator dominated by unevenness. There has never been any kind of …
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There is a certain group of our Naija countrymen who automatically switch on to hibernation mode whenever our national football team plays. Most of them insist that they have very …
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A true journalist is desirous of collecting a generous envelope from history as reward for professionalism and ethical conduct, he must be balanced and objective almost to a fault. Pundits …
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It has been more than 80 days after terrorists in the guise of Islamists kidnapped over 200 school girls in Chibok Nigeria. And it goes without saying that the unprecedented …
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One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people …
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In Nigeria it is not only with the Christian religion that unscrupulous persons operate. They are there in Islam as well. Very well educated Muslims who got their education from …
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Why did the Americans agree to this unusual swap of prisoners, even in the face of their very harsh criticism of the way we have handled the kidnapping of 230 …
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If you were to review the activities of the Boko Haram, and in spite of the fact that these killers have no clear cut demands apart from demanding a suspension …