55-year-old William Ruto has since emerged as the president-elect after defeating perennial contender, 77-year-old Raila Odinga in Kenya’s high-octane elections. The historic polls wasn’t without its...
Most young people have never experienced good governance and have lost a chunk of their formative years to terrible political leadership. They grew up with stories...
We tend to love dead heroes. We disapprove of them in their lifetimes but build cenotaphs when they are cold in the ground.
Understand that in politics, just as with other facets of life, some spin doctors’ JD is to convince you that certain things are impossible – it’s...
For me, giving people their roses while they can still smell them should be mainstream culture; Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka certainly deserves all his flowers. Isaac Newton famously declared, “If I have...
“If you vote in jokers, cranks, weak men, and charlatans with some gift of the garb – you run a serious risk of losing everything you...
Many things happen every day but agenda determines what makes the news.
The delegates have had their say at the primaries, it’s left for the electorates to have their way at the general elections. Don’t sleep, wake up....
When a person’s idea of prospering you is not to create a pro-market environment for your businesses to thrive but to systemically destroy them with hostile...
One of the first things you learn about the social sciences is that politics and economics are eternally joined at the hip. Each affects the other,...
The Roman Empire was a very powerful one. Essentially, it was a feudalistic state; a prominent social system which was a signature of the time. The...
“Fuel e no dey, brother eh transportation no dey. And our road e no good o, what about the NEPA people o – we no...
If you missed the first and second essays under this subject, you can read them to put these newer thoughts in better context. There is no...
I remember when I was much younger, as a teenager in high school – the concept of a university was over my head. I didn’t think...
I believe that humour is one of the things Nigerians naturally possess and has also been used as a coping mechanism. If not for banter and...
“Life is so short you can’t waste even a day subscribing to what someone thinks you can do versus knowing what you can do.” – Virgil...
It is very sad and I dare say, shameful that in 2021 we have to still write think-pieces about the importance of respecting human rights. We’re...
Mephibosheth is born into a royal family and like all the children born into powerful monarchies, he gets the whole nine years in terms of the...
It is a statistical fact that young people constitute the largest demography in the country and invariably form the core of electorates. However, if it were...
As a person of faith, I know the power of hope and the many times it has brought me back up when I hit rock-bottom. I...
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