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Chris Akor
What do we do about our dysfunctional education system…
In 1994, an American journalist, Robert Kaplan, in a provocative piece in The Atlantic titled “The Coming Anarchy”…
Democracy or development?
There appears to be subtle admission by the president and the administration’s minders that the war on corruption…
An air of inevitability in DR Congo!
There was a sense of foreboding last week when news emerged that unidentified assailants stormed a jail in…
Keeping mute as we slide into dictatorship
During the campaigns for the 2015 elections, and following concerns that he was an unrepentant dictator, General…
NLNG: National Assembly think again!
The House of Representatives on May 9 passed the bill seeking to compel the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited…
Do our leaders ever accept responsibility?
The philosophical debate about freedom and determinism isn’t new. But there’s a near universal acceptance that man…
The case for the private sector in Africa
Some months back, I discussed what I felt were the reasons why African leaders found it particularly difficult to…
An acephalous state
It is becoming clear even to the most fanatical of Buhari’s supporters that the president is indeed very ill and in…
Anti-corruption war as entertainment
Nigerians love drama; and successive Nigerian governments have never failed to provide them with enough dramas to…
Zuma: The cat with nine lives
For the umpteenth time, Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president survived another attempt to shove him out of office. …
Can we hold our leaders to account? The Lagos example…
Those who have followed this column will observe I have been quite critical of the Nigerian middle class. Being a…
Can we hold our leaders to account? (1)
One of the tragedies of a post-colony like Nigeria is the apparent refusal of leaders to be accountable and the…