In this third part of the examination of Why Nations Fail, we shall be looking at Chapters 8 to 12, while we hope to conclude next week. The Industrial Revolution created a critical juncture that affected some countries positively but some absolutist regimes like the old China lagged behind as
MONDAY X-RAY
BECAUSE of recent development in the nation’s milieu, the serialisation of Why Nations Fail is suspended for another fundamental matter, that is, Nigeria’s Political Abracadabra. We shall return to our serialisation next week. The various ‘magical’ happenings within the two major political parties should naturally be of concern to all those involved in the Nigerian […]
WE now live in a depraved and disoriented society. Psychopaths are taking over. Our values and ethos are somersaulting. Our national ethics are crashing. The rise in cases of rape and other sexual offences in our society are pointing to the fact that criminals and depraved minds have gone a step beyond being berserk. Chinua […]
EDUCATION is a potent tool for the emancipation of every society. I remember the motto of my high school which says ‘Seek knowledge until found’, that is, acquisition that relates to facts, information and skills. Education has also been said to play a critical role in the way we interact and understand ourselves and the […]
It is not only patriotic but equally motivational to acknowledge our country’s women and men who gave their best to this country. Today’s x-ray is devoted to an octogenarian who served this nation with all his strength and all in many nations including Australia, the defunct Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom, Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago […]
Never before has the issue of good governance within the polity and indeed, corporate governance in the private sector become imperative and compelling. Over the weekend, the media published a damning report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the Second Corruption Survey Report in Nigeria. The report indicted many agencies of the Federal […]
THURSDAY, October 24, 2019 the University of Lagos Alumni Association played host to a distinguished global citizen and diplomat who came to remind us of what it will take us to develop. He is Sierra Leonean-born Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella. Yumkella was United Nations’ Under Secretary-General (2013 to 2015), UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and […]
As a country, we had our first General Elections on September 20, 1923 and ever since electoral disputes and disputations have not eluded us. Indeed, since Independence on October 1, 1960 no election was held without controversy or acrimony! Let us use the 2019 General Elections as a case study. The campaign and elections had […]
Ordinarily, the issue of the US$9.6 billion costs awarded to P&ID by a UK court against Nigeria appears to be over-flogged. But it is not; because the financial life of Nigeria is ‘hanging by a thread’ and there is the ‘sword of Damocles’ hanging on us as a nation. The five books known as Cicero’s […]
A BRITISH soldier, mercenary, adventurist, explorer of Africa and despot (apology to Supo Sasore, SAN), Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1858 to 1945) amalgamated the Northern and Southern Protectorates and named them Nigeria on January 1,1914 without any plebiscite nor referendum; neither did he consider the nature and characteristics of the more than 250 ethnic groups.