Opinion
At the 6th Annual Congress of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, held on 15 December 1983 at Abeokuta, Papa Obafemi Awolowo, in his characteristically profound, incisive, balanced and dialectical examination of the Nigeria Project, made a forceful and prophetic postulation that moved beyond Marx and Hegel’s dialectical processes. According to the sage:
The goal of …
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Now that the cacophony of voices over the Channels TV incident has given way to other problems, we might as well engage in the luxury of looking back and rethinking the import of the saga that robbed the state security apparatus of whatever was left of its prudence. For an apparatus whose masters would rue …
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What is it that ‘glues’ our public office holders to their jobs, refusing to resign, long after their incompetence, intimacy with corruption and skeletons in their cupboards have been exposed? In simple language, why don’t Nigerians consider resignation as an honourable option, when it becomes the only wise step to take?
There seem to be straightforward …
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Many are called (to form the market base!) but few are chosen (to feed their greed from the market transactions!!) There is no such thing in life as a win-win situation. If someone must gain someone must win. Political philosophy and social humanism through the ages have attempted to cater to the needs, especially the …
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After a recent three-week visit from the US to Lagos, Ibadan, Ijebu-Imusin, Accra, and several other places in between, one phrase I could not stop using was: “What a Country!” Of course, the wording came from the title of Kunle Ajibade’s recent book. Why wouldn’t I appropriate Mr. Ajibade? The same historical forces produced us, …
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