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...

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguiyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die? (Part 2)

Ironsi’s Role In The January 15 1966 Coup The evidence that shows that General Ironsi and the plotters of the supposedly Igbo coup of January...

July 29 1966 On My Mind: Did General Aguyi-Ironsi Deserve To Die?

PART ONE INTRODUCTON On the fiftieth remembrance of Nigeria’s second coup which ended the life and six-month government of General Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military head of...

Victorian Lagos Slaves and the Inversion of Oshodi Tapa

 My attention has been drawn to the press statement issued by the Oshodi Tapa family titled, “Oshodi Tapa wasn’t a slave of Oba Kosoko,...

Iraq Abuse Investigations, North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb, Nigeria’s Politicians of Yesterday: International Legal Issues

From the above caption, it can be seen that this New Year’s article stands on a tripod. British soldiers who fought in Iraq are under...

Biafra: The Voyage of Memory vs. Custodians of Stolen Legacy

When memory sails across history, to reclaim landscapes of her birth, or recover epistemic citadels hijacked by imperialisms of conquering narratives; custodians of stolen...

2015 UN Paris Conference on Climate Change: Global Tremors in the Era of the Anti-Christ

There were things the United Nations Secretary-General did not tell the Paris Conference on Climate Change. He did not tell the Conference that the attitude...

Beyond Biafran Secessionist Movement and Counter-Reactions: Time for Frank Talk (1)

There are times in the life of a people when the gloves come off and frank talk must take the space in national discourse....

Biology is Destiny: The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Development in the Community

"It is true that there are no limits to masculine egotism in ordinary life. In order to change the conditions of life we must...

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Economic revolution: Like Deng, like Jonathan (1)

Had China's economic revolution followed traditional western development route, the usual 'big bang' neoclassical path; had it accepted the usual, ''Don't do as we in the west do, but do as we in the west say you'd do," would China have ever risen to these economic heights today?

Swiss Banks: Demands by America and Nigeria

The federal government of the United States is currently negotiating modalities for unraveling the tax evasion crimes allegedly committed by some 52,000 American citizens through offshore banking...

Why Washington opposes Jonathan's reelection?

The Third Term's failure that led to Obasanjo vacating power made it difficult for Washington to be calling the oil shots. And despite Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's sickness, he stopped Washington from calling the oil shots...

Of Fulbright, Full Truths and Being Brightly You

Fulbright is many, many things wrapped up in one....

Professor Ben Nwabueze And The Constitution

Professor Ben Nwabueze, a constitutional lawyer and a former education minister should be ashamed for being a part of the team that drafted the 1979 constitution...

Lessons from Reno

My recent trip to the USA, between August and...

Your Excellency, Welcome Back to Oyo-State

Oyo-State, a once secular State known as the "Pace Setters State" and devoid of violence, thuggery and tumult just became gravely beleaguered in the clutches of intimidation, usurpation and arrogation...

When The Dame Died!

The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her 'rivals'; her children and above all the millions and billions stashed away, garnered through connubial corruption!

Metaphor of a Beleaguered Journalist

When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the owners of the supposedly gored oxen would react the way they did...

Revolution Is Impossible In Nigeria? Some Say NEVER! Says Who?

Since the political and constitutional upheaval in Tunisia, followed by Egypt and now Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and so on, some Nigerians have publicly commented that Nigerians can only dream of Egyptian and Tunisian style revolutions and political uprising...