Position Papers

Civil War: 59 Years After the Asaba Massacre

Those who are not conversant with the Nigeria-Biafra civil war narrative may find it difficult to understand the tragic import of what transpired in...

El Anatsui: Beyond Bottle Caps and Glory

A Review of El Anatsui: The Man, the Myth, the Legend at 80 and Counting (2026) By Chris Uchenna Agbedo, PhD, fnias, mnal. Preamble “Beyond Bottle Caps...

Restructuring Internal Party Democracy: The Farce of Nigerian Primaries and a Blueprint for Reform – The Crisis of Credibility

For decades, the political narrative across Africa has been dominated by a single, unyielding aspiration: the adoption of Western-style democracy. It is a desirable...

Infrastructure Concession in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities (2)

All over the world, the demand for infrastructure is outstripping supply and new strategies are being devised to address the deficit. In Nigeria, the situation is pathetic. Decades of poor maintenance, underinvestment and outright roguery have left the country with an outrageous infrastructure deficit...

The Fourth Estate and the Other Estates

In order to be worthy inheritors of Burke’s fourth estate, rather than usurpers, Nigerian journalists ought to reclaim the moral and intellectual estates. This process would entail, above all, attention to the place of language in journalism...

The Fourth Estate and the Other Estates (2)

In order to be worthy inheritors of Burke’s fourth estate, rather than usurpers, Nigerian journalists ought to reclaim the moral and intellectual estates. This process would entail, above all, attention to the place of language in journalism...

The Key Ingredients of Social Change (2)

Social capital is the key issue on the front line of the successful implementation of development agenda. Economists, management experts, politicians, key policy makers and opinion formers are ever more realizing that it is not the case that liberalization does not work, but that economic policies are not just enough to induce real and sustainable development...

The Key Ingredients of Social Change

Social capital is the key issue on the front line of the successful implementation of development agenda. Economists, management experts, politicians, key policy makers and opinion formers are ever more realizing that it is not the case that liberalization does not work, but that economic policies are not just enough to induce real and sustainable development...

Raising the Ethical Bar in a Shrinking World

It is important to re-state the fact that at the beginning of the twenty first century, humanity finds itself in a state of despair and disillusionment. The early events of this century have shattered our vision and sense of triumph that was widely perceptible a few years ago...

Raising the Ethical Bar in a Shrinking World (2)

It is important to re-state the fact that at the beginning of the twenty first century, humanity finds itself in a state of despair and disillusionment. The early events of this century have shattered our vision and sense of triumph that was widely perceptible a few years ago...

Raising the Ethical Bar in a Shrinking World (3)

It is important to re-state the fact that at the beginning of the twenty first century, humanity finds itself in a state of despair and disillusionment. The early events of this century have shattered our vision and sense of triumph that was widely perceptible a few years ago...

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Princewill’s Abandoned Upland Riverine Political Mentality

Princewill is beyond the politics of ethnicities, and he has shown that. With this new twist in the political landscape in Rivers State, the Rivers State masses should not find themselves at crossroads...

Is Dr. Goodluck Ready To Step Up To The Presidency?

As far as Nigeria’s political power brokers and kingmakers are concerned, this may be the time to ponder, plot, and perfect their political game strategies in respect of who occupies the top job going forward...

A Path Choked With Weeds

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines...

Jacob Zuma: A Maverick in Pursuit of South Africa’s Presidency

Given President Mbeki’s antipathy towards him and his ambition, Jacob Zuma has taken to adopting opposite views to him on a number of issues...

I Love Nigeria…So Very Much!

Thanks to Mr. Paul Adujie, no one is ever going to be able to question my patriotism again. In the same stream, any one who calls into question the stated and unstated motive of our next president should be considered a traitor...

The Meaning of Being a Genius

Geniuses have no time for sanity. They prefer ideas to normality. They are not of us. They are just en route since they do not belong here. While others are fighting for lands and possessions to stake their claim on earth, geniuses are fighting gravity to capture the skies...

Oil Theft As A National Pandemic

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Oyedepo is now God! Extricate your Inquisition

Commenting on the phony nature of Nigeria’s religious eminence would be like beating a dead horse. That horse has been beaten quite a few times, unfortunately despite the private jets, the flashy cars, the flashy suits, the very apparent disparity between what is in the bible, what is being said and what is being practiced, their enterprises flourish...

Nigeria-US Diplomatic Relations Revisited

On October 1,1960, Nigeria became an independent, sovereign state...

Ogun: How Corruption-Tainted Borrowing Ruins Nigeria’s Economy

The circumstances surrounding the scandalous acrimony between the executive and legislature in Ogun State over the N500 billion bond, which the state government is seeking, have raised pertinent questions...