Chinese Communist Party’s Centenary: Implications for Africa

Chris IkosaJuly 5, 2021

BEIJING WENT AGOG LAST WEEK, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the founding and sole governing political party of the modern day People’s Republic of China (PRC), marked its hundredth year of existence on Thursday, July 1. At the Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, with a heavily packed but carefully vetted crowd estimated at more than 70,000 […]

Ethiopia’s war as Africa’s burden

Olukayode OyeleyeJune 28, 2021

Africa’s place in a period of global warming (6)

ETHIOPIA BECAME A PRIDE OF AFRICA lately. The East African country distinguished itself and provided a sharp contrast with a neighbouring Somalia that has been through 30 odd years of conflicts and power vacuum, followed by multiple power centres, since the departure of Siad Barre, the despot who left the country in disarray after his […]

Sow poverty and reap insecurity  

MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJune 28, 2021

Prioritising taxpayer enumeration

The ease with which many apprehended criminals point at the unknown devil as the instigator or basis of their crime explains the difficulty in identifying the significant factors determining such behaviours. Such escapist excuses try to put a veil on other concrete underlying causes, which either acting alone or interactively can be economic, social, psychological, […]

Re-assessing Africa’s relevance in global affairs under climate change (4)

Olukayode OyeleyeJune 14, 2021

SAHELIAN AFRICA IS BACK again in full reckoning, following major political decisions taken within and outside the region. Those decisions are likely to have far-reaching effects on the region in the immediate aftermath and in the long term. Mali was the epicentre of these recent remarkable events that prompted those decisions, which were triggered by […]

Boko Haram, ISWAP and an unjust country

MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJune 14, 2021

Prioritising taxpayer enumeration

The tremendous impacts of religion in our society are well known. Early missionaries, well focused on their proselytization agenda, built several schools, hospitals, water infrastructure, and many other essential public services that supported Africa’s journey towards prosperity. The various religions they brought offered powerful platforms for social cohesion: the rich, the poor, the sick, the […]

Re-assessing Africa’s relevance in global affairs under climate change (3)

Olukayode OyeleyeJune 7, 2021

EVERY GOOD INTERVENTION PLAN needs realistic implementation guidelines, timelines, elaborate description of actors, clear pathways for funding, accountability criteria and unambiguous details on impacts, all of which could be put in proper contexts by outlining the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) mechanisms, key performance indicators (KPIs) and comprehensive impact assessment criteria. Activities that have led the […]

Insecurity and civil society response

Chris IkosaMay 31, 2021

Prioritising taxpayer enumeration

The complex dimensions of insecurity in Nigeria suggest that its management is beyond the narrow precincts manned by security professionals alone. Everyone is affected by it and should be involved. Consequently, from the parental counsels at various homes to the religious exhortations in multiple churches and mosques and the actual pulling of the trigger by […]

Re-assessing Africa’s relevance in global affairs under climate change

Olukayode OyeleyeMay 24, 2021

CLIMATE CHANGE may be interpreted by some as disadvantageous to the world economy. While that view holds some validity, it is not the concern here now. Beneath the frenzied campaigns to halt climate-endangering human activities – much of which have also led to stupendous rise in global wealth and well-being, and have provoked divisive politics […]