“L’etat c’est moi!”
Provocation. Noun. 1. Action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately.
2. Testing to elicit a particular response or reflex.
When Louis XIV, the “Sun...
Where have all the artistes gone?
By Prof Remi Sonaiya
In a television interview broadcast a couple of years ago, renowned South African playwright and actor, John Kani, co-author of Sizwe...
Help! ‘perilous times’ are upon us!
It was the Apostle Paul in his second epistle to Timothy, his spiritual son, who predicted the following: “But know this, that in the...
Could showing too much honour be bad for a society?
In October 1996, I returned to Nigeria after a 12-month research stay at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. It was a very...
Welcome, our new ministers…
By Remi Sonaiya
The long-awaited inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet was finally carried out on Wednesday, 11th November, 2015. The ministers were sworn in and...
A nation so assaulted!
There are times when one is at a loss regarding which of the current “burning issues” in the land to focus attention upon. From...
Skills for 21st century living
The necessity for citizens of the world to acquire skills relative to life-long learning was one of the vital “tools” for the 21st century...
Standing on the verge of a tipping point?
Tipping point “That magic moment when ideas, trends, and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire”*
Most Nigerians normally lament and decry...
Go learn some French – and open up your world!
Tuesday, 14th July, 2015 saw me spending time reminiscing over my journey so far with the French language and culture, a journey which began...
Please, let’s hurry up and fix this nation!
By Remi Sonaiya
Much of last weekend, the final one in November 2015, was spent travelling to Minna from Ile-Ife, and back. I hadn’t travelled...
