Nasir El-Rufai. Two things come to mind. One, a man who is disliked by so many Nigerians. And two, a man who is fighting for a political relevance. If El-Rufai is a Religion, I do not belong to his faith-circle. I do not want to sound either like an El-Rufai apologetics. I do not set out to writ...
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Is Nasir El-Rufai Fighting For A Political Relevance?
The Dearth of Investigative Journalism In Nigeria.
Journalists are any nations best known gadflies. And like gadflies, they are also best known stingers. They sting the dormant coincidence of humanity until everyone is wide awake to a new concept of reality-perception. I am not a journalist myself. I am a philosopher by training. There is some symb...
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African Diaspora: Take a Chance, Grab the Opportunity!
Africa is changing. There are tremendous opportunities in the continent. If there is something Diaspora Africans should learn from the developed west especially, it would be the principles of pragmatism. Let’s stop talking about how real problems in Africa are; let’s start solving p...
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What Fate for Nigeria in 2011?
Nigeria has tottered on the brink of absolute collapse for so long. And sometimes, one wonders what sort of benevolent fate had sustained her from the so many waves of cataclysmic disintegrations. It came to a point where nothing in Nigeria seemed to be working. Corruption kept spreading like plagu...
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Gowon's EEG Call: A Travesty to Soyinka's
Few weeks after Wole Soyinka, one of the few Africans globally respected, facilitated a mass protest against Yar’adua’s northern retrogression of the Nigerian nation, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd) has as well instigated some of the most unpopular figures in the Nigerian history ...
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Pat Utomi: His Ego, the Presidency
It has been a while ago, my first year in collage. It happened that I came across, while I was staying with a cousin at Enugu, a Tv program that featured Prof. Pat Utomi and his band of critical thinkers. I was instantly, as a fresh philosophy student, drawn to the surgically precise intellectual d...
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Rethink When Next Soyinka Calls for a Protest.
When I first read that the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka had called on Nigerians for a protest match in Abuja, I was both embarrassed and ashamed for the younger Nigeria youths. My thought was, this senior citizen loves Nigeria so much that even at his age, he is ready to commit...
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Mene Mene Tekel Upharson: A Handwriting on the Nigerian Wall.
The year was 539 BC. Of all the years that came and went in Babylon, this very year would go down in history as sadly memorable. It was the year that the historically acclaimed mysterious handwriting appeared on the wall in Babylon. King Belshazzar held a feast. Present were the nation’s grea...
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Jonathan Goodluck Believe in Fatalism!
The word GOODLUCK has something fatalistic about it. It connotes a favorable phenomenon that suddenly occurs in ones life with which one’s prior actions were not of any apparent causality. In the African worldview, names are existentially woven into the very concept of life itself. It is ...
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Maryam! No Better Life For Rural Women Still!
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones
So let it be with Caesar…”
William Shakespeare, one of the world’s brightest minds, crafty instilled the above striking words into the mout...
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