Jideofor Adibe
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2023 and the Igbo political behaviour
Many Nigerians were taken aback that at the last presidential primaries of both the PDP and the APC, an overwhelming majority of the delegates from the south-east geopolitical zones failed → Read More
Reflections on CBN’s naira-4-dollar policy
The circular issued by the Central Bank on March 5 2021 informing all banks, International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) and the general Public of a new Naira-for-dollar policy has been → Read More
Madagascar’s COVID-19 solution and perils of soldiering for African cures
Recent reports about the trajectory of the COVID-19 in Madagascar shows an uptick in the rise of infections and deaths. → Read More
Wole Soyinka at 86
Nigeria’s wordsmith extraordinaire and master of quotable quotes, Professor Wole Soyinka (born Oluwole Akinwande Soyinka on July 13 1934), turned 86 last Monday. Coincidentally Wole Soyinka became the first black → Read More
The lingering APC crisis
The latest round of crisis in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reportedly led to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu, ordering the seal off of the party’s → Read More
Nigeria and the promises of democracy
Was Buhari right not to create space in the speech for MKO Abiola, in whose memory June 12 was named as the country’s Democracy Day? → Read More
Nigeria and the promises of Democracy –
I was impressed with the first few paragraphs of Buhari’s Democracy Day speech. I thought they were quite good, unifying and inspiring. The speech started this way: “Fellow Nigerians, the 2020 cele… → Read More
Passionate support for Adesina and Okonjo-Iweala: A second re-invention of Buhari? –
It is gratifying that despite opposition from the United States, the Buhari government not only remained resolute in its support for the re-election bid of Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as President of t… → Read More
Reflections on Buhari’s Executive Order No. 10 –
President Buhari’s Executive Order Number 10, signed on May 22, 2020, in which he sought to grant financial autonomy to the 36 state Houses of Assembly and the judiciary, has been praised by some, … → Read More
Why govt should not extend the ‘easing of the lockdown’ again –
The extension by two weeks of the current ‘easing of the lockdown’ in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun States by two weeks has raised a number of fundamental issues. Speaking at the daily briefing of the pre… → Read More
Madagascar’s COVID-19 remedy: Challenges of African traditional medicine –
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, (and previously known as the Malagasy Republic), an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres off the coast of East Africa, has been making waves recently with its claim of a herbal cure for COVID-19. The country’s President, Andry Rajoelina, 45, claimed that the herbal syrup, known … → Read More
Is Africa prepared for the coming Cold War 2? –
As the world speculates on the nature of a post COVID-19 world order, one thing seems certain – the altercation between the USA, the world’s largest economy, and China, the second world largest economy, will take centre stage. The ripple effects of this will cascade down the various nation states. The immediate post COVID world … → Read More
Does it really matter who succeeds Abba Kyari? –
Since the death of Abba Kyari, Buhari’s Chief of Staff, there have been speculations on who will succeed the man famously regarded as Nigeria’s de facto President and the head of the ‘cabal’. We are told that intense lobbying for the position has started, not just among certain individuals but also among the various contending … → Read More
Farooq Kperogi: The man behind the ‘angry keyboard’ –
Farooq Adamu Kperogi, 47, Associate Professor of Communication at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA, is a non-apologetic critic of the Buhari government – as he was also of the Jonathan government. The Kwara State-born media scholar had been a reporter and news editor at various Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, where, until sometime last … → Read More
Nigeria After COVID-19 By Jideofor Adibe
Post COVID -19 world will also see an increasing rejection of the philosophy of globalization of markets as nationalism and micro-nationalism become the new normal. We saw, how with the pandemic, various countries quickly shut their borders and air spaces. The various states in the country also quickly banned inter-state travels. → Read More
Nigeria after COVID-19
The poor have seen the rich brought to their level and things may no longer be the same – at least for a while after the pandemic. → Read More
The world after coronavirus
Has the world as we know it changed inexorably because of a virus that was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019? This is the big question many people → Read More
The World after Coronavirus –
Has the world as we know it changed inexorably because of a virus that was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019? This is the big question many people are grappling with as the Coronavirus epidemic sweeps through the world, with more than 181,000 people testing positive for the virus around the world, and … → Read More
Sanusi: The dethronement of a non-conformist
“Sanusi said he did not consider himself a radical but admitted that when he was in merchant banking, he did feel that tension. → Read More
Sanusi: The dethronement of a non-Conformist –
The dethronement of Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi as the 14th Emir of Kano did not take many people by surprise. The surprising thing for some people is that he lasted as long as he did on the throne. In fact there were rumours that Rabiu Kwankwaso, who as Governor of Kano State made him the Emir … → Read More