Author: Emporium Reporters

I have severally confessed my love for the South African literature. I fell in love with it early in life while gobbling up narratives of heroic travails of liberation struggle fighters, represented in the works of Mazisi Kunene, Ezekiel Mphalele, Peter Abrahams, Alf Wannenburg, Alan Paton, Alex La Guma and many others. I must have read La Guma’s A Walk In The Night and virtually all his works innumerable times. Of the lot, one South African author whose works equally spellbound me is Can Themba, perhaps because of the self-inflicted…

Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman- Ibrahim is the current Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, a known driver and protagonist of the Renewed Hope Agenda, RHA of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Renewed Hope Initiative, RHI of Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria’s first Lady and wife of the President .   In aligning with the two notable Agendas and as member of the think tank of the present administration as a cabinet member, Imaan who was the first female Minister of State , Police Affairs and later the current portfolio, was at…

The current state of what passes for “activism” captures the dilemma and dysfunction of an underperforming post-colonial state. Nigeria once possessed a robust tradition of advocacy. This legacy is unambiguously illustrated by the November 18, 1949, Iva Valley massacre in Enugu, where miners were cut down simply for demanding labour conditions consistent with human dignity. The Iva Valley massacre – carried out under British watch – constitutes a war crime. Consequently, the British government must provide reparations, as it did for Kenya’s Mau Mau fighters.   Unlike today’s “come-raids”, Nigeria…

“Building Legacies: Governance, Successor-generation and Continuity”, a lecture delivered by Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) at the 2026 Afe Babalola Distinguished Personality Lecture, last Tuesday, was thought-provoking, incisive and, unsurprisingly, received a standing ovation.   The ovation, at the event held at the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), reflected the impact the offering made in extending the boundaries of knowledge and contributing to more rigorous thought. It revealed Oyebanji’s affinity for intellectual curiosity and the institutions founded on knowledge – an area where ABUAD has made its mark in a…

The public sector is the machinery used by the state to execute plans, policies and programmes.   Quest to make things better establish certain institutions with a mandate to realize targeted objectives and essentially undertake some core activities.   The exercise is not peculiar to developing countries as the developed world grappled with it in the late 1970s and early 1980s.   In response to the demands of economic and environmental dynamics, nations strive to cope with or manage change.   In developing countries such as Nigeria with an urgent…