Mohbad: Music, Money, and Morbid Moments
In the last three decades, Nigerian artists achieved global recognition. These include artists like Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Made Kuti, Tiwa Savage, Tems, Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy, among others.
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On Gusau, Guangzhou, and Global Gender Gaps in Education
Conflict and crisis rank among the top threats to the education of girls and women in Nigeria, widening the gender gap in education locally and globally.
Big Brother Benin: On Journalists, Jihadists, and Jurists
Yes, Jihadists are freer in Nigeria than in Benin, going by how long terrorists have thrived in Nigeria compared to Benin.
India on the Moon: Ìsẹ́, Isẹ́, and Ìsẹ̀se
Yet governments who fuel their national carriers to outer space, who fund pilgrimage to uncharted celestial lands go all the way for a reason.
Niger coup: After Burkina Faso, before Sierra Leone
A new wave of coups in Mali, Guinea, and recently, Burkina Faso, all francophone countries, has reawakened West Africa’s infamous nickname – “Africa’s coup belt”.
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Fraternité, Travail, Progrès?
It would be seen that this latest coup in the Niger Republic was influenced more by a combination of palace politics and ethnic factors than the widely-mouthed reasons.
Ode to Ode: To merry or to marry
Marriage can be too early such that it distorts a child’s process of full self-discovery and set them on a course of intergenerational poverty and integral pain.
The DisCo Electricity Law: On Imprudence and Prudence
Learning that Nigerians’ docility could be taken for granted, several of the DisCos announced a tariff hike which would take effect from July 1, 2023, citing a MYTO guideline and exigencies of the times as the basis for their judicial ruling.
God, Guardian, and the Gender Agenda
You’ll notice that the more the number of biases against women, the fewer the proportion of people likely to show these prejudices.
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A civilian C-in-C faces war within and without
The country needs effective governance and regional cooperation to navigate through these turbulent times and emerge as a stable and prosperous nation once again.
Thirty days on: Tinubu’s Triads and Trials
Tinubu comes by more as a music critic than a performer. His musical taste unveils a man with a deeply reflective cultural core. Even when he dances, he listens more than he moves – his pulse and pauses, the emotive response to a griot’s lyrical invocations.
The Electricity DisCo Law: Lower supply, Higher revenue
Over the years, DisCos supply of electricity to their customers was never proportional to the revenue they got off their customers.
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Tinubu’s Trinities: Policies, Politics, and Policing
Nigeria’s corporate businesses performed best in 15 years in Tinubu’s 3 weeks old presidency, but the inflation rate hit hardest in 17 years during his first week.
Scammers Paradise: Nigeria’s Air, Water and Land
Thus while the Nigerian Navy is known around the world to be useful in combating illegal fishing in their country’s territorial waters, they are not known for combating illegal pumping of their country’s crude oil through illegal pipelines to vessels on the ocean.
Tinubu’s turn: Liberties, leadership and limits of age
Currently, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ranks among the 45 oldest presidents among 187 presidents of countries in the United Nations, going by the recent Pew research.