Obadiah Mailafia

Old men do not rebel. It is the young that have the energy to revolt. They have nothing to lose. It is in the nature of human beings to rebel if they feel that their social conditions are…

I met the Japanese-American physicist Michio Kaku a few years ago at an international scientific conference in Jordan. According to him, we may be approaching the twilight of the gods: “In…

When Albert Einstein was sixteen, he was precocious enough to ask himself a simple question: “What would the world look like if I rode on a beam of light?” At that time, he himself did not…

Without much fanfare and drums, the federal government recently launched the Nigeria Agenda 2050 programme in Abuja. Agenda 2050 is a long-term perspective plan that aims to reposition our…

Ours has become a chronically anti-intellectual society. We have become a society that valorises illiteracy; where values and standards count for nothing – where excellence is viewed with…

Black swans are rare, unpredictable, large-impact occurrences. The theory of complexity provides a good framework for understanding black swans and for learning how better to cope with…

The ILO warns that, globally, job losses could reach as high as 50 percent of the workforce. Agriculture, manufacturing and the retail industry have also registered massive losses. Aviation,…

Honourable Vice-Chancellor Professor Olanrewaju Fagbohun; Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Elect, Professor Elias Wahab; the Head of Department of Economics,…

This is primarily an economics Column. But I plead with my gentle readers to forebear with me as I go on a personal detour. There was, uhmm, a storm in a teacup the other day, involving,…

In ancient times, China and India dominated the world economy. Their combined GDP accounted for nearly 40 percent of the world total. In the first millennium of our Christian era,…