Last month, I received an email from a marketing executive who was wrestling with her conscience. Her company had developed a new software product that was genuinely innovative, but her boss wanted her to create a campaign that exaggerated its capabilities and downplayed its limitations. “Ruth,” she wrote, “I know how to persuade people. I’m good

Education stakeholders in Oyo State have raised alarm over what they described as a deepening basic education crisis

It was Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, the French critic, journalist, and novelist, who, in 1849, coined what has become an enduring proverb: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same. In matters of governance and power in Nigeria – military or civilian – nothing can be

From Iyana Ipaja to Yaba, Lagos, Joyce, a student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, used to spend N1,000 on public transport before taking another bus