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,…
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…
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…
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…
It came like a bolt out of the blue. Early this week, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, issued an advertisement, which went in a completely different direction compared to what…
The American Spring landed at an unexpected time. The Coronavirus pandemic had forced billions of people around the world on a lockdown for upwards of two months. On May 25,…
Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a tactical error. He shouldn’t have let Godwin Obaseki go down or at the very least, get thrown out of the All Progressives Congress (APC). But…