By Edwin Madunagu The last paragraph of my last published article for the year 2020, titled “Study notes on state and state failure” (December 22) started with a number of questions to the... Read more
By Attahiru M. Jega Introduction Federalism is the principle, some would say a conceptual or institutional framework, which defines “the division of authority among national and subnational... Read more
By Denja Yaqub When we first met mid-80s, he strikingly exhibited all the attributes of a courageous, determined, focused comrade optimistic, like the rest of us, of the imminence of a revol... Read more
By SKC Ogbonnia President Joseph Biden’s inaugural speech says it all. The United States of America has overcome the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 incited by President Donald Trump. The... Read more
By SKC Ogbonnia In the book, Effective Leadership Formula, I compared the leadership patterns in the United States of America and that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and concluded that... Read more
By Chido Onumah “…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation w... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu This piece is dedicated to two of the surviving members of the Old Guard of the Nigerian Left: Comrade Biodun Jeyifo (BJ) who turns 75 on January 5, 2021, and Comrade Bene... Read more
By SKC Ogbonnia “I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. Am not joking, I know am on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother (G... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu This is a combined personal tribute to two personages: Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings and Comrade Bassey Ekpo Bassey. I have isolated them from a longer list of personages that came... Read more
By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz When the quintet of us met early in September to moot the idea of commemorating his 60th birthday there was thick apprehension. How would the man receive this? This qu... Read more