Perspectives
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Security for public good, the WISER way
Nigeria is in transition, and interplay of issues is rearing their heads. Expectedly, security is top on the list, and...
The Final Gallop Home
There’s a saying in Yoruba language that the horse does not spurn the final gallop home. True. Home is that...
Farida Barau: Portrait of A Woman of Substance
When a woman decides to explore her potentials and make an impact in a society, she is unstoppable. That is...
Election Aftermath: Unholy Alliances and Strange Bedfellows
In politics, there are no permanent friends and foes, and it will be naïve of me to expect otherwise in...
Soyinka: The Man ‘Died’ in Installments
No true freedom fighter can obfuscate voices of freedom and democracy and still claim to be one. Professor Wole Soyinka...
It is Not Every Forested Jungle that the Itinerant Forager Plucks… Or Oblivion Beckons
"Is Soyinka, the god, unraveling?” - Dr Festus Adedayo Kongi, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, a deity before whom many Nigerians...
Chimamanda: Nigeria’s Democracy is Positively Growing
The noted and internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist and essayist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, deserves a great deal of sympathy for her...
Dear Chimamanda Adichie, Election is Not a Literary Contest
Yesterday, I read an op-ed by Chimamanda Adichie addressed to the President of the United States published by The Atlantic,...
Fascism on Course
It would appear that a record discharge of toxic sludge from our notorious smut factory is currently clogging the streets...
Rarara’s Body Shaming and Kano Politics
For the past 43 years that I have been a researcher, there were two areas I stay clear of: politics...