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Of Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka

There are some strange developments and coincidences happening between Germany and Nigeria, particularly as it concerns Albert Einstein and Wole Soyinka on the one...

Soyinka: From California with Love

Thirty-four years back, one Saturday morning, then an undergraduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, a friend (Olatunbosun Oni) and I...

WS@82: “Politically Correct Ideas vs. Cultural Openness”

WS, Your sundry hoary strands Stand as beacons To navigators cruising from all seafronts To the island of bliss, astuteness, scarred proficiencies and maneuvers that beat fulfillment without animosity, without lust with...

Can Nigeria Be Crushed Into Shape?

I was disturbed by a report in last Sunday’s edition of The Punch newspaper. It read, “Buhari orders military to crush new Niger Delta...

Enugu Killings: Matters Arising

There seems to be some quiet in the South East after the national uproar that greeted the massacring of over 50 indigenes of Ukpabi...

It’s The Economy, Wise Guy

In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A year earlier, then...

Emperor Buhari, or Plain Poor Communicator?

As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for the Nigerian Presidency, his handlers cast him as a man purged of the dictatorial tendencies...

A People’s Aversion to the Truth is their Undoing

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world." - Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth,...

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