In Nigeria, there’s a disturbingly haunting temporariness in the appellative identity of every university that derives its name from its location. If the current trend holds, they will sooner or later be renamed after a dead or living politician. The University of Ibadan; the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; the University of Lagos; the Universi...
•Maryam and late husband General Sani Abacha In a June 9, 2025, interview with TVC, Maryam Abacha claimed that the more than $3.8 billion recovered from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, and other countries, popularly known as the “Abacha loot,” was actually money her husband had “saved” for Nigeria. According to her, the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean. Our stone-broke universities are the stones. The presidency is the ocean to which Tinubu wants […]
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