On ambition
In the light of recent conversations and discussions I have had, I have been reflecting afresh on a few key issues today, so
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Book Review: Pedagogy of the oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Company Date: 1970 When Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the world was in
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You must bring the change
A few days ago I was calling on citizens to reflect on what has turned out, unwittingly, to be a powerfully revolutionary
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Book Review: The Mystery of Capital
Author: Hernando De Soto Transworld Publishers, 2000 276 pages “The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its hour of crisis”. This is Hernando
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Nigeria: another way
Introduction The modern nation of Nigeria was born in 1960 amidst fanfare. As of then, forty six years had elapsed since the British
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The competitive advantage of nations
(2nd edition) Author: Michael E. Porter Publisher: Palgrave, New York, 1998 855 pages Unlike David Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which was
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2015: of simple solutions and missed opportunity
The sorry tale of the Nigerian state is such that much, if not all, the talk about the 2015 election has been how
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Critical thinking for strategic polls by Jesse Adeniji
Chairman Mao and the Communist party wanted to annihilate all forms of religion in their bid to build their own type of society.
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Growing GDP, poorer people: a paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty
According to official statistics obtained from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, and reported by the world bank in its 2013 “Nigeria Economic
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Of “guns, germs and steel”: reflections on the challenge of Ebola and Boko Haram
In recent weeks it has become quite clear that Nigeria has succeeded in stemming the advance of the Ebola virus. The virus, recognised