Beyond The Surface

Beyond The Surface

What next after these shutdowns?

The directive to have telecoms services suspended for two weeks in Zamfara State evokes the memory of a similar attempt to neutralize an overpowering

The price of prestige projects

Even with the dust motes of the Nigeria Air project yet to settle, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has returned with another tale: Nige

PIA and Nigeria’s post-oil future

The signing of the Petroleum Industry Bill into law by President Muhammadu Buhari last Monday set in motion a misguided outrage in some quarters over

The politics of forgetting

There’s something fundamentally Proustian about General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in Nigerian politics, and that fact was animated by his Arise TV in

El-Zakzaky: Freedom in a cage

Even in freedom, he is still a captive of the government. Since his arrest in 2015, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife’s bail applications were se