June 12: Democracy and hardship
Yesterday was supposed to be a national celebration of democracy, remembering the great events that followed the annulled election of 12th June 1993,
Deepening Democracy
Deepening Democracy
Why is DSS afraid of Pat Utomi’s ‘shadow government’
Although I have been a student of political science for over 50 years, I still often get surprised by the way in which security agencies take extremis
Tributes: Danlami Samuel Ibrahim; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
We lost our most senior brother, Mallam D. S. Ibrahim, Dan Masanin Wusasa on 23 May 2025 at the age of 86. DS, as we call him spent most of his career
Oil Theft: Why Nigeria continues to lose its essential commodity
Nigeria’s losses due to crude oil theft are more significant than those of some other OPEC members, the Chairman Senate Ad hoc Committee on Crude Oil
Creating a one-party state: Lessons from the Second Republic
During the years preceding the establishment of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1978, a coalition of politicians from most of the parties of th