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...

Had Awolowo Decided: A Critical Assessment of the Dilemma of a Nation

When a race is less critical, it is more likely to make less advancement Nigeria we hail thee Our own dear native land Though tribes and tongue...

Of Power and Illusions of Omnipotence

1. A Brief History of an Illusion! The life of man has repeatedly proved that illusions are seductive. Mankind has constantly being swayed and crippled...

Civil Society Engagement In Nigeria: CONGOs Perspective

In 2010, comrades who were inspired by the quest for an egalitarian social order, came together to deepen the space of civil society in...

The Recesses of a Litigation Lawyer’s Mind

The Law is not the easiest profession in the world. No aspect of the profession gives its practitioners an easy ride. I came into...

A Basketful of Accomplishments on the CASARN Project

ANEEJ has been implementing the CASARN project since December 2019 and it is expected to end in April 2021. This discussion is to highlight...

Insecurity, Economic Regression and Social Anomie: A Call for Decisive Action

While in the past, the point at issue was the problem of hunger and general poverty being experienced by the Nigerian people, in recent...

The Tragedy of Leadership and Followership in Nigeria: A Call for Total Destruction and Reconstruction of Ideas and Behaviour

Leadership has been defined as a process whereby a leader influences a group of followers to achieve common goal (Northouse, 2013). Also, leadership is...

Anticipatory Probe Report on NDDC: Matters Arising

The Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, an accountability advocacy group, having participated actively in the investigative public hearing on the alleged financial malfeasance in...

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2015: The Die is cast and the Time is fast. Jonathan’s Universe of the Turning Wheel (2)

Since 1960, Nigeria has gone full circle. From coup d’états to relay military autocracies, to arrangee presidential impositions, rigged elections, Supreme Court awards to failed candidates, political fractiousness to fragmentations, to fermentations, to decay...

The Joy Of Fatherhood {Conclusion}

A father is a man who, under a marriage obligation, sired a child through a wife. In the proper African context, both man and woman must be married and as soon as a child arrives, the man is now a father and the woman, mother...

Rebranding Nigeria’s Cities

A conceptual gap still exists in the understanding of the principles and practices of place branding amongst Nigeria's many state and local government officials...

Gift Giving and our Nascent Democracy

There is fraud in the land, and this fraud has been escalating in bountiful dimension since the beginning of this democratic dispensation. Our public officials have elevated the game of bribery and corruption and have come up with a system that has turned the African culture of giving on its head! This is Nigeria, anything can be anything...

Amaechi and power Supply

The provision of stable power supply is very important in any given environment no matter the angle we may look at it. Electricity supply helps in designing a people and their city with creative initiatives for entrepreneurial development...

Women are dangerous – Conversation with Tony Tetuila

So long as you are a microphone man, you are a star and ladies will always be around you. But there's always a diplomatic way of discouraging them. Women are dangerous. You have to be careful the way you deal with them, because women can lift you up and if you aint careful, they will pull you down...

The End of Orthodox Medicine?

Unknown to many, there are spiritual impediments to wellness and wholesomeness. Before you were born and unknown to you, your parents may have initiated you into all forms of foundational bondages, especially ancestral linkages with negative demonism...

Deranged, Debased Dino, Detonated!!!

Dear Dino, Aghhhhh… Dino Melaye!!! You again? Rascally you again!!!...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed Of Nigeria?

Nigerians in the Diaspora are reluctant to say that they are from Nigeria. Some of us believe we could lose an interview, lose our honor, or perhaps get treated unfairly differently, if we identify with being a Nigerian...

What Is Your Hostage Value?

Time was when it was just foreigners who enjoyed hostage threats in the country. The threat had later flowed down to the relations of political office holders and the rich. Today everybody including yours sincerely who daily does battle with the same realities of our failure as a nation just like the Boys has a hostage threat hanging down the neck...