This world sha – by Frank Ofili
Seems FFK has already resumed work at APC. His first assignment appears to be to tackle Bukola Saraki over the later’s visit to former President Goodluck Jonathan to try to convince him not to...
Category: Opinion
A Life of Opposition: Navalny’s Path From Gadfly to Heroic Symbol – By Anton Troianovski
While waiting out the coronavirus lockdown in his two-bedroom apartment last spring, the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny seemed uncharacteristically idle, with his most potent weapon against the Kremlin — street protests —...
How Nigeria is more democratic than the Western world – by Frank Ofili
All things considered; it may be argued that Nigeria is probably more democratic than the Western world. Let us use the world’s most “advanced” democracies – the US and the UK – to drive...
Social Media Companies Should Self-Regulate. Now. – by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie
Tech companies face the real threat of government regulation in reaction to socially harmful content they are publishing. To avoid this, tech companies should form an industry coalition and take proactive steps to self-regulate...
Capitalism Delivered Promise, and Faced a Reckoning, in 2020 – BY EBEN SHAPIRO
On Dec. 13, the Detroit Free Press posted a video on its Twitter feed. I didn’t expect to get emotional watching it. The shaky clip, shot by someone holding a smartphone, showed UPS and FedEx semitrailer trucks carrying...
The Arab Spring Ten Years Later – by SHLOMO BEN-AMI
From the return of Russia to the normalization of relations between Israel and a growing number of Arab states, the decade since the Arab Spring continues to redraw the Middle East’s geopolitical map. The...
The Case for a Quadripolar World – by DARON ACEMOGLU
According to the conventional wisdom, the twenty-first century will be characterized by the global shift from American hegemony to Sino-American rivalry. But a bipolar international order is neither inevitable nor desirable, and we should...
On AGF Malami and the House summon of President Buhari – By Frank Ofili
Let us not go into history, one of which was the refusal of PDP’s oil empress, and minister of petroleum resources under President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to honour the invitation of the...
Shut up, Trump – by Frank Ofili
Trump’s America, itself intolerant of popular will and racial differences, is accusing Nigeria, a country with Muslim president and Christian vice president, of religious intolerance. Wetin Musa no go see for gate? And just...
Imperatives of Managing Public Communication in a Polarized Democracy – By Emeka Oparah
In the aftermath of the recent #EndSARS protests and the resultant riots, there have been interesting conversations around the way the government and the police managed the communication element from their end. This is...
