Somewhere in a quiet policy paper, probably written in a room with good air conditioning and zero Nigerian electricity experience, a very confident sentence was born: “A well-crafted constitution is an operating system for national behavior.” Beautiful. Elegant. Almost poetic. There’s just one small problem. The real world—particularly places like United States and Nigeria—has decided …
In a scene that would make Monty Python proud—specifically their immortal Dead Parrot Sketch—Trump approaches the global stage clutching what he insists is a “very alive, very dangerous nuclear program.” “It’s a serious program,” he says. “Many people are saying it’s the most alive program. Tremendous enrichment. Nobody enriches like Iran, believe me.” At which …
Continue reading "This Nuclear Program Is Not Pining, It Has Expired by Lawson Akhigbe"
NATO, Trump, and the Unravelling of Western Hegemony The article “NATO, Trump, and the Unravelling of Western Hegemony” published April 3, 2026, frames the current geopolitical inflection point with provocative clarity. It traces NATO’s evolution from a post-WWII defensive bulwark to a tool of power projection, highlights Trump’s transactional “proprietor” approach as internal corrosion rather …
When do you feel most productive? Awake actions and sleeping thinking, in fact one is most productive during one’s being. Any production is at its most and it’s all times.
(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday 15 December, 2025). General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country of five political parties and when it was time for the parties to pick their candidates for the presidency, all the five reached a consensus …
Continue reading "Time for the Abachas to rejoice By Lasisi Olagunju"
Centre for Nigeria Progress 