While Nigeria retakes its place as the lodestar of Africa, it must evolve and not stay fastened to the old ways of “big-brother diplomacy.”
While Mmesoma’s mistake can never excuse criminal behaviour, it does serve as a wake-up call for educational reforms.
Africa needs to turn more of its raw materials into complex products that the EU will be willing to buy in order to have a fair deal.
It is important to pursue peace. But it is more important to pursue it from the bearings of strength.
Never make judgements solely on the basis of surface impressions.
How did we get here? As in many things dumb and useless, politicians have managed to lead the way to the collapse of values.
No society that brazenly starves and robs its poor to enrich its rich should expect to make progress or enjoy peace.
When patterns repeat themselves, they become a tradition and we get desensitised.
The wall-to-wall coverage of the implosion of The Titan and the short shrift that the deaths of over 500 migrants received…reecho the Shakespearean line about beggars.
To unravel the ‘and FCT’ constitutional conundrum, one must know what the military had in mind when they decided to set up a special Federal Capital Territory.
