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Tinubu’s Government: Fact and Fiction

Global UpfrontJan 28, 2025January 28, 20250

Dr Promise Adiele, PhD I have always known fact and fiction as separate words with distinctive identities. However, Professor Akachi Ezeigbo’s seminal book Fact and

Nigeria’s Flourishing Fake Industries

Global UpfrontJan 15, 2025January 15, 20250

By Promise Adiele, PhD Identifying squalid conditions in any society consistently is a humanitarian job that deserves divine compensation. Such conditions could be in the

Beyond Dele Farotimi’s Travails

Global UpfrontDec 25, 2024December 25, 20240

By Promise Adiele PhD The travails of activist Dele Farotimi in the hands of inscrutable but entrenched principalities in Nigeria have all the potential to

Don’t Cry For Dele Farotimi, Cry for Nigeria

Global UpfrontDec 12, 2024December 12, 20240

By Promise Adiele PhD Genuine, unpretentious patriotism is deep, very deep. It arises from an unflinching, sometimes obdurate conviction that one’s country would one day

Davido And The Burden Of Truth

Global UpfrontDec 4, 2024December 4, 20240

Dr Promise Adiele PhD Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the Department of English UNILAG class of 1998. It was a wonderful occasion

Obasanjo’s Moment Of Epiphany

Global UpfrontNov 20, 2024November 20, 20240

By Promise Adiele PhD I met Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time in his Abeokuta home in 2017. I had gone to interview him with

Peter Obi, Churches, and Night Vigils

Global UpfrontNov 13, 2024November 13, 20240

By Promise Adiele PhD Nigeria’s undisputed political sensation and Labour Party’s presidential aspirant in the 2023 elections Mr. Peter Obi continues to bestride the country’s

Treason: Nigeria On Trial, Minors On Trial

Global UpfrontNov 6, 2024November 6, 20240

Dr Promise Adiele, PhD Wole Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi dramatize trial in different, compelling

Peter Obi, Gowon And A Country In Turmoil

Global UpfrontOct 25, 2024October 25, 20240

By Promise Adiele, PhD Nigeria’s former military head of state Mr Yakubu Gowon recently marked his 90th birthday anniversary. Expectedly, many Nigerians felicitated him on

My Journey To Kirikiri Prison

Global UpfrontOct 16, 2024October 16, 20240

By Promise Adiele, PhD Barrister Jubril Salami is my good friend. Our friendship started at Henry Carr Hall, University of Lagos. I cannot immediately remember