Muhammad Shakir BalogunCitation: a viewer’s opinion of the movieBecause of the noise that people were making on Facebook and the general hype all over the place I finally sat down to watch the movie…Dec 16, 2020Dec 16, 2020
Muhammad Shakir BalogunOn the Nobel Prize for Physics, Cosmology, and Popular Science WritingI’ve been itching to comment on this matter since this award was announced but work has been such a pesky distraction.Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
Muhammad Shakir BalogunA Reader’s Impression of The Mechanics of Yenagoa by Michael Afenfia (2020)Reading this novel as I did over the better part of two days during the Eid break felt like binging on accumulated episodes of a TV series…Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
Muhammad Shakir BalogunFrom compassion and charity to health economicsWe learnt more than clinical medicine at the bedside. We also learnt that poverty and ignorance could make people deadly sick. We learnt…Oct 15, 2019Oct 15, 2019
Muhammad Shakir BalogunNigeria at 59: we need to rekindle the dwindling patriotismIn 2005, when I was in the UK, the great patriot and public intellectual, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, after an avuncular exhortation to me to…Oct 4, 2019Oct 4, 2019
