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Buhari @78: President or mannequin?

Today, December 17, President Muhammadu Buhari turns 78. His storied life has not been short of ironies. The biggest of these ironies, it would seem,

All in one week

“A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea”. African proverb This time last week, I was in a meeting in Enugu involving hundreds o

Security and the Buhari-NASS no show

Nigeria is not a democracy. We need to stop misconstruing noble lexicons and misinterpreting concepts. A democracy thrives when the will of the people

Breaking the back of banditry

In 1984 when Ronald Reagan was re-elected US President (much to the chagrin of my friends and I), the opening sentence of his victory speech was, “Goo

Beyond Buratai’s “Golf Course” Optics

Since the massacre at Zabarmari, the heads of Nigerian armed forces have featured in a cocktail of angry commentaries, with the call for their sack tr