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...

Power and Politics of the Written Word: The Legend of Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe lived in glory as the one-man institution who conquered the world for Mother Africa, and the great Kenyan novelist, Ngugi wa Thiongo,...

Against campaigns dominated by wild fears

Little clouds of dust rise and hang on our air. Up to almost yesterday our minds were molded by fear. The question on our...

In Search of Unity – 62 Years After

No Nigerian leader thus far has been able to breast the unity tape. Forget all the fine words and promises and boasts, most Nigerian...

Democracy, Deep Pockets and their Ramifications

Being a former British Colony, Nigeria had the political misfortune of being bequeathed with a public administration system that was based on ‘Migrated Social...

The Cemetery Of Corruption Called Nigerian History

There is talk here and there of bringing back History with a capital “H” in the Nigerian school curriculum. It is cool by me to...

The Mafia Paradigm

Bureaucracy is a systemic form of administration. Since there is a universally acceptable standard benchmark, a deviation from the ideal type reveals the unintended...

Enhancing Anti-corruption and Social Inclusive Reform Initiatives in Nigeria

Last week, our organisation organized a 2-day seminar for CSOs and journalists on enhancing advocacy skills on anti-corruption and social inclusive reform issues in...

Is Africa a Latecomer to Christianity?

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge -Hosea 4:6. It cannot be overemphasized that Africa’s novel role in the formation and propagation of the...

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Re: Understanding Nigeria’s Debt Situation

The potential of Nigeria is in its human resources, its youths eager for knowledge and education, its industrious farmers and labourers, its emigrants working hard in their adoptive countries to improve the lot of their families back home. These are the real assets with which we look to the future of with confidence and hope...

The Incessant Doctors' Strike in Nigeria

There is a colossal loss of lives even with doctors in attendance; one can only imagine the number of lives lost as a result of incessant doctors' strike across the federation. This is the least the nation needs as it approaches another round of elections...

The Jonathan Presidency: A Call for Caution

The evil, corrupt, barely educated political elite, especially those in the ruling party, PDP, have played a sleight of hand to subvert the rule of law and do away with the provisions of the Nigerian constitution...

Nigeria's Governors' Forum Election Saga: Echoes Of A Morally Bankrupt Political Entity

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors' Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson any usufructuary benefits...

Oil Nigeria: Bothered For Fair Shares

What currently prevails in the Nation’s Southern oil enclave is a specific variant of internal colonialism….

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (4)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

Those Hausa People! Those Igbo People Those Yoruba People!

They are the worst people in Nigeria. They are responsible for all of Nigeria's sundry economic, political and social ills and plethora of malaise! Those people! Not us! None of them from our backyards! None!

Pounded Yam In Vienna

I descended on the meal as though i had never ever eaten pounded yam before. I pounded the yam in my mouth with the ease of one who had been starved for weeks. Suddenly i was unable to follow or lead any coherent conversation, my concentration and attention were focused on the collapsing structure of the mountainous pounded yam in front of me...

A Democracy of Profligacy and Outright Treasury-Looting

The Nigerian Minister earns more than his American, British or German counterpart, and of course enjoys perks of office those ones cannot even dare dream of - for doing next to NOTHING!!! This is a wasteful, reckless, licentious and decadent system of governance...

Military Adventures, Nigerian Marriages And Other Matters

I know quite a few who searched the nooks and corners of the US for available and eligible Nigerian women to marry – all to no avail...