WHEN REASON BOWS: THE QUIET SEDUCTION OF BLIND FOLLOWING – By Charles Obiajulu Ugwu
I. The paradox of the thinking human To be human is to reason, we are told. Homo sapiens: the wise ape. The critical thinker. The moral agent. Yet, history and …
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Aba Power Commends Customers for Role in Free Mass Metering
Aba Power, Nigeria’s 12th electricity distribution company (DisCo), has attributed the success of its ongoing free meter campaign to the cooperation of its customers. In an interview with journalists today, …
The Trap of Currency: When Clarity Disappears on Contact with Reality – By Dr. Charles Obiajulu Ugwu
There is a strange and persistent enigma at the core of the human experience, one so embedded in our public and private lives that we often fail to register its …
Ex Abia State Auditor General in Court for Assaulting Female Aba Power Staff Member
There is growing public outrage over the alleged assault of an Aba Power staff member, Ubochi Onyinyechi, by Mr. Chidi Ehiemere, a former Auditor General of Abia State. Mr. Ehiemere, …
NIGERIA’S “DEMOCRACY” AND THE FAILURE OF IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS By Charles Obiajulu Ugwu, PhD
In every nation’s democratic journey, there comes a moment of reckoning, a clarifying season where the costumes fall, the noise clears, and the people are forced to confront the brutal …
ISRAEL, IRAN & THE REST OF US: Warning Signals from History – By Victor Anazonwu
Flashback to the 1930s. The German Reich under Adolf Hitler profiled, hunted, killed and displaced millions of Jews. They were scapegoated as part of a larger Nazi (Nationalist Party) plan …
We Taught Machines to Think but forgot how to be Human – By Charles Obiajulu Ugwu, PhD
Long before machines began to write, drive, predict, and “learn,” we had already ceded something precious. Not to algorithms, but to our assumptions. The most dangerous idea wasn’t that AI …
When the Forgotten Become the Familiar: My Encounter with Usman – By Charles Obiajulu Ugwu, PhD
They say you get used to anything if you see it often enough. That the mind eventually dulls the sharpness of pain, even the kind that isn’t your own. But …
What Tinubu’s Global Travel Map Says About His Economic Plans – By Dominic Ikeogu
A man in distress nurses no pride. He goes wherever and to whomever is necessary in search of help. President Volodymyr Zelenski of Ukraine made the long trip to the …
THE TRILLION-NAIRA DRAIN: HOW “SECURITY VOTES” FUEL INSECURITY – By Bello Abdullahi
In the shadowed corridors of power, a fiscal phantom bleeds Nigeria dry. It operates under an innocuous alias – “Security Vote” – a budgetary sleight of hand that transforms public …
