You will likely wonder at the obvious contradiction in the oxymoron of “unarmed gunmen.” Well, it’s just a way of saying that, on a deathly prowl in Nigeria of today, are individuals carrying arms without legal or state authorisation. To put it in a more explicit, though obverse, way, while legitimate bearers of arms are…
The content of the broadcast media -radio, television or the Internet- are sent from a source, to receiver, by air. So, if you said that the content of the broadcast media is air-borne, no one would think you were talking about a disease. Sometimes, broadcast engineers and communication scholars choose to describe the pathway of…
When curators choose to restore (usually) valuable artifact to its old glory, it is said to be restored. So it will be with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is gradually going back to his old military self. After a chequered, enviable, career as a war officer, military commander, Minister of Petroleum Resources…
The Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana, Alban Bagbin, who is on an official visit to the House of Representatives, has called for stronger ties between his country and Nigeria. Bagbin, who extended greetings from the President of Ghana and Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa States, Nana Akufo-Addo, said his country hailed…
To understand the implications of the regime of Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) regime’s plot to muzzle the media, it is necessary to trace the journey of the media and of the concept of freedom of expression in the service of democratic governance. The Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason of the 17th and…
Anyone who has seen OXFAM images showing kwarshiokor-ridden children, with big head, deep eyes, gaunt gait, distended belly, reed-thin legs and flies swarming around them will not wish famine for Nigeria. Despite the posturing of Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, the overly hyped Anchor Borrowers’ scheme is not exactly translating to enough foodstuff…
The word, transmission, may have been wrongly patented to a former Inspector General of Police by the National Assembly that probably thinks the brand could be devalued if the Independent National Electoral Commission uses electronic transmission for election results. If the ex-IG indeed exhibited such symptoms, it could mean he had dyslexia. Though some deny…
A more than disturbing news broke early last week when the media reported that the naira was exchanging at the parallel market at N503 to one US dollar! It looks like the naira is precipitously going downhill, like the Venezuelan bolivar soberano and Zimbabwean dollar. As of 2018, the inflation rate in Venezuela was 1,698,488…
Clerics and evangelical Christians should please forgive the appropriation and reworking of a text of the Holy Book, “Righteousness exalteth a nation,” used to explain the importance of education to the economic development of Nigeria. While reacting in his usual robust manner to a previous serving of this column, Najeem Jimoh, friend, university classmate, journalist,…
Dialectic, dialectics, or dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation. Political economist, Karl Marx, who wrote about dialectical materialism, drew attention to the resolution of contrasts in society, with his submission that first, there is…