NIGERIA has a disturbing habit of allowing those in power to treat constitutional restraints as inconveniences rather than obligations. Once again, the country is confronted with questions over presidential absence, constitutional compliance and the willingness of its institutions to hold the powerful to account.
Across the civilized world, introducing oneself is a predictable, orderly affair. There is an unspoken, universally accepted architectural blueprint for human identification: First Name, Middle Name, Last Name. If you are introduced informally at a backyard barbecue, you are John. If you are summoned before a Senate committee, a magistrate, or your bank manager, you …
In “Deference to Deities: A Hindrance to Pre-colonial Africa's Innovation,” https://uchechukwu007.substack.com/p/deference-to-deities-the-poison-to?r=i6gfm&utm_medium=ios Uchechukwu Philemon Obimma tackles a recurring historical question: Why wasn't pre-colonial Black Africa as technologically and structurally developed as ancient Europe, India, or China? Dismissing racial and IQ based arguments as baseless, especially given the contemporary global contributions of Black and African innovators, Obimma …
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What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? That it will come around
Adams Oshiomhole is that rare Nigerian political specimen who managed to climb from factory floor to labour presidency, state house, party chairmanship and the red chamber without the inconvenience of a published higher educational attainment. Self-taught, they say. One imagines him in some dimly lit corner of history, devouring political manuals by candlelight while the rest of his compatriots were busy collecting certificates that later proved about as useful as a raincoat in the Sahara.
