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...

Black Women Arise: The Fairy Tale of Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle’s bloodline serves as the confluence of many currents, of great kings, great promises, and of great pain…but her people have always survived...

Should We Not Begin To Re-Consider Election As Basis for Leadership Guide?

If it is true that Philosophy is supposed to rescue society from itself, is it then not time for philosophers to begin to engage...

Looking for oil in the North

A few days ago I was rummaging through some national dailies. One of them, The Guardian of Nigeria, carried a very curious story on...

Comparative Analysis of the American Congress and Nigeria’s National Assembly

The United States Department of State funds an International Visitor Leadership Program through which it seeks to build mutual understanding between the United States...

Failure of Imagination in Postmodernism in Nigeria 

What do Nigerians really want? A million dollar question! I am dwarfed to make any preachment on how people should live their lives. As...

Workshop for CSOs on OGP and UNCAC: Welcome Address by Rev. David Ugolor

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, is currently implementing the Civil Society Advocacy Support for Anti-Corruption in Nigeria CASAN. As part...

Project Nigeria Revisited

When a child falls down he looks at the front but when an adult falls, he looks at the back.  At fifty six years...

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguiyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die? (3)

QUASHING THE COUP OR CARRYING OUT A COUP? In recent years, as more Nigerians begin to pay close attention to the country’s chequered past, the...

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Amaechi's Frustrations In The Hands Of Contractors

Road construction always signifies the giant steps of any government, especially in this part of the world where the leaders use the tax payers’ money to build infrastructures and wear the imminent credit accruing from them as if it was their personal money...

Trafficking and Dangerous Disposal of Hazardous Wastes in Nigeria: Tackling the Root Cause

Nigeria’s quest to put a halt to the reckless and indiscriminate dumping of wastes can only succeed if the government chooses to change its attitude of dangerous dumping of municipal wastes in unlined pits and water bodies...

Nigerian Bankers and The Times

Now that Sanusi is wielding the big stick, how sad to see yesterday’s banking big boys and girls looking towards the sky for some indication of what tomorrow holds. On a regular basis in the dailies, speculations are rife about looming mass sack in the banking halls...

Zeroth strategy for waste oil disposal in Nigeria

Used oil or spent oil is a product of petroleum, produced during the process of fractional distillation. Due to the presence of the hydrogen carbon bond and hydro-carbon chains it poses a health danger to man and the ecosystem...

United States Financial Meltdown, A Special Report

No jaundiced writer should talk about a” Black Monday, week or month,” when referring to the current financial crisis because I do not see how the colour black contributed anything to proven white-collar incompetence...

Some June 12, For Sure!

June 12, 1993 was that almost impossible day in the horizon of a country that had been written off as a colonially-induced tragedy of the worst kind; a date that happened, as they say in football, against the run of play...

Transparency and Accountability

Nigerians have not yet mentally embraced the notion of Representative Democracy. The Politicians are still revered as some ‘big men’ who do the people a favor when they are around...

Tonye Princewill: Using Serene Capital to Reduce Poverty

There are billionaires in Nigeria who do not know what to do with money again. They only continue to stockpile more money in different hard currencies as if they are preparing for a competition...

Vice President Atiku Is Illogical!

This man Atiku, is clearly lacking in good logic, good sense and sound judgment. How else does anyone explain his incredulous suggestion to the effect that President Obasanjo resigns? It just does not make any sense. President Obasanjo is the head of Atiku's ticket!

Ikedi Ohakim: Stewing In Scandals!

Unlike Anambra State, Imo State has had little problem of hijacked state apparatus by immoral godfathers or their lackeys and the citizenry boasts of majority of enlightened electorate who hold their leaders to account...