The love birds have chosen dates for their engagement and wedding ceremonies. The engagement ceremony is scheduled for a Thursday. The wedding holds the following Saturday. That’s the regular wedding pattern in our days. But has it always been like that? The marriage covenant goes
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Everybody is talking about the need for Nigeria to return back to Agricultural business, but how much of such business can we do now, without 24/7 electricity supply, especially to our agrarian communities? How could we preserve our fruits and crops, and dairy products in the farms, before they are transported to the markets? We […]
In part 4 we continued our study of Alexander Chiejina’s report on the potential of agribusiness in Nigeria – “Unlocking Nigeria’s Agribusiness Potential”. Chiejina proceeded to cite Leah Gatts, an analyst with Consultancy Africa Intelligence, who pointed out that the Nigerian market is not easy to penetrate because the political and investment environment is a […]
Until she won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, Namwali Serpell enjoyed relative obscurity at her Associate Professorship position at Berkeley, California. If the Caine Prize didn’t thrust her into the African and global limelights, beyond the inhabited borders of the literati and the bitter spaces of critics, her hand of giving and her […]
I get off the bed. Look through the window – no traffic. Strange. I look at the bedside clock. The long hand’s moving towards 12 while the small one is on 7. No traffic on a working day! It can’t be possible. I then put on the transistor radio. It’s almost time for the news […]
Prof. Femi Odekunke is a professor of Criminology who served as aide to Lt Gen Oladipo Diya when the latter was second-in-command to the tyrant Gen Sani Abacha. He was one of the people put on trial by the Abacha junta when his boss, Diya, was accused of a plot to remove from office by […]
