The Indigene And Settler Problem
By Babs Fafunwaculled from GUARDIAN, April 25, 2005The indigene/settler issue first reared its ugly head in 1861 when King Dosunmu of Lagos ceded Lagos to the Britis...
Read moreculled from GUARDIAN, April 25, 2005The indigene/settler issue first reared its ugly head in 1861 when King Dosunmu of Lagos ceded Lagos to the Britis...
Read moreIt was Professor Wole Soyinka, the noble laureate, who coined these right words to describe President Olusegun Obasanjo’s excessiveness in Abeokuta,...
Read moreculled from DAILY TRUST, June 14, 2005The Leadership newspaper of March 13, 2005 came out with the Middle Belt agenda as its lead story and John Dara ...
Read moreThe Nigerian media has been credited for standing against the oppressive rule of the Military and was said to have been part of the struggle that remo...
Read moreIn 2003, I wrote an article on the Nigeriaworld, titled: “Professional Responsibility in the News Media” I stated that: “The role of the media i...
Read moreMarch and April this year were significantly difficult for Christians, especially the Roman Catholics. As Christians were celebrating Easter, th...
Read moreIt seems majority of Nigerians have gone through the school of mischief and had in the process learnt and imbibed good lessons of sortie which hampers...
Read moreculled from THISDAY, November 25, 2005We must not allow the nauseating, disappointing, cowardly and criminal escape of DSP Alamieyeseigha from justice...
Read moreWe have been discussing heavy stuff for some time now. We who write did not start the heavy talk-stuff rolling. Our leaders, our political class did. ...
Read more My first reaction when contacted by Mr. Wale Adedayo to give this lecture was to wonder, why me? After all, I am known as a die-hard Afeni...
Read more culled from THISDAY, March 30, 2006Two weeks before the Liberian election last November, Mrs. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then a presidential candida...
Read morePetroleum and Gas Reserves The proven Nigerian oil reserves are 23 Billion barrels; the gas reserves are 160 Trillion cubic meters. Petroleu...
Read morePROLOGUE My fellow Nigerians, I am in a jocular mood this Easter, with my last fortieth birthday just past (on April 2), and that of many members...
Read morePROLOGUEAfter five long years of resisting the idea, President Olusegun Obasanjo has in his wisdom now finally assented to a talk of sorts – a “Na...
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Nigeria’s grid collapses are not ‘bad luck’ – They are a design failure, and we know how to fix themFirst published in VANGUARD on February 3,...
Islands of Credibility: Nigeria’s Best Reform Strategy Starts in the StatesFirst published in VANGUARD on January 31, 2026 https://www.vanguard...
Project 2025 Agenda and Healthcare in NigeriaThe US and Nigeria signed a five-year $5.1B Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 19, 2025, to bo...