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Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” is a protest book, written by Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, who later went into exile. It explores the relationship between the know-it-all European colonisers of the Old World and the presumed-to-be-ignorant colonies of the New World. The thrust of the book is that traditional pedagogy, or the teaching template handed down…

The most public aspects of this King Babu are his absent-mindedness toward his responsibilities, and his fastidious attendance to details about things that affect his person, his family, political friends, and his ethnic constituency. To him, what touches us shall first be served, contrary to Julius Ceaser, who thinks otherwise. It may seem contrary too…

Many career public servants will be cursing Steve Oransaye under their breath for somewhat suggesting that many of them should be let go, through the rationalisation, meaning hiving off of most of their jobs, that actually don’t add much to the business of governance. In 2011, The Presidential Committee on Reform of Government Agencies, set…

Maybe you can make sense of the following excerpt from a statement credited to Abdulkadir Saidu, Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, on government’s position on the removal, or retention, of subsidy in the downstream oil sector of Nigeria. The confusing text has understandably led to contradictory headlines and interpretations by newspaper…

On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Department of Police in America’s State of Minnesota, knelt on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who died after nine long minutes. Despite Floyd’s repeated pleas of, “I can’t breathe,” Chauvin maintained this suffocating position, while his colleague officers, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and “chinko,”…

It looks like the fury of those who detest the literal kneeling on the neck of George Floyd by officer Derek Chauvin, and the metaphorical kneeling of whites on the neck of Black people through slavery, in the past, and neocolonialism in modern days, won’t abate very soon. And the white supremacist system, which rastafarians…

When the late pop musician, Michael Jackson, sang the worrisome sentiment, “All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us,” nearly everyone thought he meant that, no matter their public posturing, white folks care very little about Black people. They may well be right, considering. But the phrase is also applicable to…

Though Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, denies intention to run for President in 2023, there is everything in his body language that suggests otherwise. After grandly declaring, “I have no decision regarding 2023,” he threw a curve, “2023 will answer its own question in…

After listening to the story narrated by Isaac Ighure, former General Secretary of Nigeria Guild of Editors, on the agony he went through, when trying to fulfil a statutory obligation to renew the annual registration of his car in Lagos State, the question that came to mind was, “Is this somebody’s idea of fiscal federalism?…

COVID-19 is real. I am one of the 1,897 patients discharged in Lagos State after treatment, as of Sunday, July 19, 2020. If my understanding that by going through this, I have immunity – can neither be infected, nor infect others – I am going to the bank with the assurances. After feeling feverish, I…