The Revolt of Homo Economicus – by Tatalo Alamu
We return to this arduous and thankless labour this morning, and to a world out of joints. Almost everywhere on the globe, humankind is in bitter revolt against a system that has failed to satisfy...
Category: Opinion
Good wishes to Nigeria at 59 – Frank Ofili
Fellow countrymen and women. Let me begin by wishing us all a happy Independence Day celebration. Our leadership challenges notwithstanding, we have everything to celebrate as a nation. I am optimistic that we shall...
Johnson, Trump, Fate in the Balance – Frank Ofili
So, the Supreme Court of the most civilized democracy in the world has ruled that its leader violated the constitution when he suspended the parliament of the most civilized democracy in the world? In...
Opinion: Atiku, Ambition and The Endgame – Louis Odion
So, after all his thunderous imprecations and venomous profiling of the Wazirin Adamawa as “hopelessly corrupt”, OBJ could not resist the temptation of a N50m “egunje” from the same tainted hand. Perhaps, our ever...
Dear Cyril Ramaphosa – Frank Ofili
During the WW II, Japan took several steps to provoke America and draw her into a war she was disinterested in. A combination of factors made Washington to ignore those provocations as though they...
A Butcher’s judgement …… typically British – Louis Odion
A poor reading of the verdict by the London court slapping a historic penalty of $9b on Nigeria last Friday is viewing it as an affirmation of the law of contract. No, it is...
P&ID vs. Nigeria: A Review – Reuben Abati
The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in...
Six years ago, today – Frank Ofili
They arrived in a nondescript maroon coloured Mazda car (can’t recall the car’s registration number). A man and a woman, the man middle-aged and the lady in her late thirties from the look of...
Remapping the Nation: National Boundaries and Normative Bounds (II) – by Tatalo Alamu
Normative bounds are the absolute ethical and moral limits a nation sets for itself; the irreducible minimum standards required in the conduct of political business; the core values which set the frontiers for the...
Remapping the Nation: National Boundaries and Normative Bounds – by Tatalo Alamu
“A nation is defined by its normative bounds and not its territorial boundaries.” Mapping the realm: The Architecture of governance AS Nigerians, we live in unusual and ethically challenged times. The old moral compass with which...
