What would you do if you won the lottery? The flight of fancy is the fun of the lottery rather than the accidental winning because more money more problems. In the flight I will take off from my abode and go to my ancestral homes and uplift all and pave the roads, provide electricity, water …
A Rejoinder To Kingsley Moghalu: In Praise of Our Political Entrepreneurs (Nigeria’s Only Growth Industry) by Lawson Akhigbe
The Kingsley Moghalu's article on X is serious, sober and correct—which in Nigeria automatically makes it suspicious. It diagnoses Nigeria’s problem as the capture of power by a political elite obsessed with “primitive accumulation.” I disagree slightly. What we have is not primitive accumulation; it is advanced, sophisticated, PhD-level accumulation. These people have turned looting …
Who will help Nigeria grow into a country where comfort is not a crime and happiness is not an act of rebellion?
Because as things stand, most Nigerians who stumble into positions of power do not go there to govern; they go there to harvest. Corruption in Nigeria has no borders, no brakes and no shame. It has moved from simmering to boiling point. Public office has become a fast-track investment scheme: enter poor, exit outrageously wealthy. …
For the Justice Department, Trump’s interests are national interests. That’s how dictatorships work. By WP Editorial Board
ATTORNEY GENERAL William P. Barr routinely bristles at suggestions that his Justice Department looks more and more like a taxpayer-funded law firm for President Trump. Mr. Barr insists his decisions reflect no other consideration than the rule of law when he sics prosecutors on those who were involved in the Russia investigation or when he …
The Tragedy of Victory by Godwin Alabi-Isama
What books do you want to read? An on-the-spot account of the Nigeria-Biafra war in the Atlantic theatre
Centre for Nigeria Progress 