Radical Reforms: Disbanding Police Forces in the US
“I’ve been saying for the last several years … American policing is at a crossroads.”
Mike Cutone, former Massachusetts officer, June 5, 2020
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Africa, Eid-al-Fitr and The Virus
This year’s eid-al-fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days, in observance of...
COVID-19, 5G Network and the Place of Common Sense in Technological Advancement
With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effect on humanity, the world was obviously caught unawares and became distraught. People of...
Corona Encounters
This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report...
Coping with Coronanomics
The global economy is in a tailspin. IMF and the World Bank have both predicted a contraction of the global economy with developing economies...
Abba Kyari: A Death
Aso Villa, Nigeria’s seat of presidential power is bereaved. On Friday, April 17, 2020, it recorded its first major casualty of the Corona Virus...
Hell is Other People: Pandemic Lifestyles and Domestic Violence
In No Exit, the translated title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s play, Huis Clos, three deceased characters find themselves in a room, ostensibly in Hell, in what transpires...
Corona Chronicles
This is my third commentary on the Coronavirus pestilence (see “E ku Corona o” – ThisDay, March 3, and “Amala and the Coronavirus patient”...
The Taliban Scores a Coup
It threatened to disappear under the viral haze of COVID-19, but February 29 saw representatives from the US and Taliban, loftily acknowledged as the...
Amala and the Coronavirus Patient: Matters Arising
Of all the updates that have been given so far by the Lagos State authorities on the government’s efforts to contain the spread of...
