BY OWEI LAKEMFA THE INTERNATIONALIST, intellectual, radical historian and generally accepted leader of the Nigerian Left, Olusegun Osoba, left on May 14, 2026, at 92. What followed the exit of a man who greatly influenced and led three generations of Nigerian radicals was a twenty-six-day programme of celebrating his life, times and works. It was as if a father whose children and siblings could not come to the reality that their symbol of unity had bowed out of the arena. Indeed, their platform was called “Osoba for Eternity.” However, it is not the eternity of human existence, but of his…
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BY MAX AMUCHIE IN THE PREVIOUS article, I introduced the concept of the Realm of the Long Term. I argued that every institution eventually arrives at a stage where the central question is no longer whether it can perform today, but whether it can continue creating public value across generations. At that point, management ceases to focus primarily on immediate performance and begins to think in terms of stewardship, continuity and institutional endurance. The Realm of the Long Term is therefore not simply about longevity. Many organisations exist for decades without becoming enduring institutions. Some survive financially but lose their…
The Arbiter AMERICA, or Trump (these days they are interchangeable), fresh from bullying Venezuela, arrogantly thought it could replicate that in Iran. Seeing that Iran had a different chemistry from Venezuela, it devised a more sinister approach. It killed the country’s spiritual leader and a string of its military leaders. It thought the regime would collapse, enabling it to balkanise the country into fragments, making it difficult for them to come together again in a hundred years. But if there is a honey badger nation, that should be Iran. The honey badger (aka the ratel) is famous as the most…
UEFA says it has lost confidence in FIFA’s current leadership after world football’s governing body abandoned its controversial $20 billion FIFA Future Enterprise (FFE) proposal, deepening the governance crisis surrounding President Gianni Infantino. Although UEFA welcomed FIFA’s decision to scrap the investment plan following widespread opposition, the European governing body said the reversal did little to restore trust in Infantino’s administration, accusing it of pursuing opaque reforms without adequate consultation with football stakeholders. In a strongly worded statement released on Saturday, UEFA said the current FIFA leadership had “not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members…
THE CHIEF Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has directed lawyers, court officials and other personnel attached to the Supreme Court to discontinue the use of the title, “Barrister”, as a prefix to their names in all official activities and correspondence involving the apex court. The directive was conveyed in an internal memorandum dated July 13 and signed by the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Kabir Akanbi. The circular was addressed to litigation staff, legal practitioners, court registrars and lawyers working within or appearing before the Supreme Court. According to the memorandum, the decision was taken to reinforce…
Says Accountability Requires Societal Value Reorientation, Stronger Institutional Reforms Seeks Stewardship Accounting In Varsity, Professional Curricula To Nurture Ethical Leaders NIGERIA cannot build a sustainable culture of accountability until citizens collectively reject corruption in all its forms, says Professor of Accounting at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Terzungwe Nyor. Prof. Nyor made the assertion while delivering the 24th Professional Inaugural Lecture of the NDA, where he identified corruption as one of the country’s greatest impediments to accountability, good governance and national development. Speaking with National Record after the lecture, the accounting scholar urged public office holders entrusted with managing public…
How the second Dr Segun Osoba Symposium revived an old debate about class, state power and democratic transformation in Nigeria. By Iduh Onah OUTSIDE the BON Elvis Hotel conference hall in Wuse 2, Abuja on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, Nigerians continued their weary negotiation with hardship. Commercial buses and kabu-kabu taxis dropped off workers already calculating how to stretch wages that inflation had rendered inadequate almost before payday. Young graduates contemplated an economy that no longer seemed capable of rewarding education with employment. Pensioners waited for benefits earned through decades of public service but delayed by bureaucracy and corruption. Across…
BY OWEI LAKEMFA THERE are one hundred and thirty active wars lit around the world today and three outstanding men can be linked to many of them. But President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has emerged the best tactician and strategist of the threesome. Always playing the victim, he just pulled off a major tactical link between the two most active and devastating conflicts: the US-Iranian and the Russo-Ukrainian wars. He did so by attacking commercial Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea, hitting the Anna, killing an Iranian sailor and injuring others. President Trump is not as cunning as Zelensky, but…
THE HOUSE of Representatives’ investigation into the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has uncovered fresh details about the alleged use of forged government documents, with lawmakers maintaining that only the appointment letter of the council’s purported Director-General contained a fabricated signature, while the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation admitted that her office failed to conduct adequate due diligence before approving the entity. According to Daily Post, Chairman of the House Committee on Defence and head of the investigative panel, Rep. Yusuf Gadgi, said letters purportedly issued from the Office of the Chief of Staff to…
IN AUGUST 2017, I addressed today’s theme in one of my columns. Since then, the situation has worsened considerably. We do not spend sufficient time reflecting on the rapid deterioration of our culture and we bask in the ignorance that our culture and tradition reflects long held values inherited from our forebears. Meanwhile, Nigerian culture has transformed considerably and has become extremely troubling and indeed frightening. Over the past three decades, millions of private citizens have acquired arms, top-level combat arms, and are using them to kill other private citizens to steal their possessions or to avenge their god from…