One hopes that the #EndSARS protests won’t lead to Sahel Spring, sub-Saharan Africa’s equivalent of the Arab Spring, a wave of spontaneous anti-government protests, uprisings and rebellion, which sparked off in December 2010 in Tunis, Tunisia, and spread across the Arab world. The Arab Spring led to the fall of governments of Libya, Egypt, Yemen,…
The novel, “A Tale of Two Cities,” written by English novelist, Charles Dickens, is set against the terrible condition of life in France before the storming of the Bastille fortress and occurrence of the 1789 French Revolution. French doctor, Alexandre Manette, spent 18 harrowing years in the fortress before his release to live in Paris,…
In “My Dungeon Shock: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundereth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” the first part of “The Fire Next Time,” his non-fiction novel, American writer, James Baldwin, observed, “God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, the fire next time.” That is Baldwin’s way of telling Black American youths to…
THE Federal Government has called on the National Assembly to amend the Procurement Act to allow smaller construction firms to handle critical infrastructural projects. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), told the House of Representatives that the Act set stringent qualifications for contractors to handle certain projects of the government. The Minister…
The battle for America’s White House is practically won and lost, and the free world now knows its leader for the next four years, Joe Biden, a very present fixture of the Washington, DC., establishment in nearly five decades. His last duty post was as Vice President to Barack Obama, first Black president of America….
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday sentenced another two men to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts, Lanre Kayode (34) and Olanrewaju Aremu (35), who were armed with guns and cutlasses, robbed one Oluremi Jimoh of her laptops, phones and a Toyota Camry car in Ado Ekiti, the…
Sisyphus, King of Corinth in Tartasus, was condemned to an unending task of rolling a boulder uphill, only for the boulder to roll downhill, and for him to start the task all over again, and again and again, ad infinitum. The Yoruba do not approve of a fellow who continues to shake the crumbs of…
The media, bar its conservative flank, is the hero in resolving the nearly constitutional impasse from the 2020 presidential election between incumbent President Donald Trump and challenger, Joe Biden, who has so far garnered 306 of the 538 Electoral College electors. The CNN, leading international television network, is emerging as a guiding light in the…
Political representation enables the people of a democratic nation to choose, usually by election, some of their number to act on their behalf at a council of state, for it will be cumbersome for all to come in person to deliberate on matters of state, as obtained in the Greek city states. Despite a representative…
Where there is absence of governance, or the impact of government is not felt, you have a situation that political theorists describe as a state of anarchy and insecurity, as currently obtains in most of Nigeria. Nigeria is fast becoming a space where governance is missing, especially in the aspect of security, which is Job…