Searching for Godot, by Dan Agbese
The Irish novelist and playwright, Samuel Beckett, published his now famous play Waiting for Godot, to an initial indifferent review in the early forties. It is […]
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A peep into Buhari’s legacy, by Dan Agbese
The next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be a very lucky man. He will not have to scratch his head over any […]
Voices of history (1), by Dan Agbese
I have argued a zillion times in this column that the absence of an ideology in our political parties continues to cast a blind spell […]
How not to move the nation forward, Dan Agbese
I took a walk through my columns for this newspaper the other day and found this. Sometime in 2016, President Obasanjo spoke on the health […]
The PDP mission to Abeokuta, by Dan Agbese
The report I read of the visit by PDP leaders led by their new national chairman, the savvy, quiet and effective political operator, Dr Iyorchia […]
The Babangida leadership prescription, by Dan Agbese
President Ibrahim Babangida’s criteria for the Nigerian leader he would like to emerge post President Muhammadu Buhari should stimulate national debate on the leadership question. […]
The longest unwinnable war, Dan Agbese
Fifty-five years ago, as of this January 15, the late Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, told us that the ten per centers made Nigeria look big […]
The men who talk to the gods, by Dan Agbese
By Dan Agbese Pastor Enoch Adeboye, general overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, said early in the week that God had not told him who […]
As tomorrow cometh, by Dan Agbese
It is the time of the year we are immersed in the ritual of the momentous change in the calendar. One year becomes old and […]
Again, the triumph of selfish politics, Dan Agbese
The discerning knew it would come to these: that the electoral act bill sent to President Buhari for his assent on which he sat for […]
The rebirth of Naval Dockyard, by Dan Agbese
It shone a bright light through the darkening gloom in a nation that appears to have domesticated bad news. I am talking about the commissioning […]
Omicron: The ban by UK and Canada, Dan Agbese
The United Kingdom and Canada have incurred the wrath of the Nigerian government and the people, as indeed they should – and unwisely invited themselves […]
Time to stand on our heads, by Dan Agbese
The Daily Trust cartoon of November 28 went viral, as indeed it should. Because it packs humour and raises issues about the giddy mathematics of managing our […]
The World Bank’s bad news about our economy, Dan Agbese
The bad news is that our national economy remains stubbornly defiant. Past and present efforts to solve its inherent historical problems and cure it of […]
The #ENDSARS panel report, by Dan Agbese
I bet I was not the only one who feared that the work of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry on Restitution for Victims […]