Osinbajo: Between Columnist And Calumny
In logic, “argumentum ad ignorantiam” describes a deficit in reasoning whereby an argument is based on sheer ignorance. It is the most hilarious slip to make in a debate. To…
In logic, “argumentum ad ignorantiam” describes a deficit in reasoning whereby an argument is based on sheer ignorance. It is the most hilarious slip to make in a debate. To…
Events of the past few weeks in Nigeria illustrate how corruption has graduated into kleptocracy, leaving us in a society where the theft of public assets is so mature that…
Members of the National Assembly always seem to be at war with one head of a federal agency or another. The face-off usually starts with a threat of a public…
When a pilot dies, the colleagues say he or she has gone to the hangar in the sky. Hangar is a place where aircraft are housed, but it was way,…
Those who opposed the creation of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 20 years ago must be having a good laugh now. Their biggest concern at the time was that…
When I led a team of The Point’s editors to have a Democracy Day chat with Pastor Tunde Bakare, in his presidential Amazing Grace Villa residence, I honestly did not…
A couple of months ago, a friend got an unusual email. A certain character, whose name she can’t even remember now sent her a mail, which in his words was…
There’s a wise saying in Yoruba land, which goes thus: “If you like, feed the entire city with pounded yam, egusi soup and stockfish on a daily basis, there’ll still…
After three and a half years of his presidency, US President Donald Trump appears to have exhausted all surprises in the bag, except, of course, the next one. And that…
An election had already taken place and a winner declared. But when outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi died early last month from complications relating to the coronavirus, it still…