Why the North is failing
“A large chair does not make a king”. African proverb By the time you read this, the ancient Emirate of Zazzau may or may not have a new Emir to succe
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At 60, Nigeria Needs You Alive
In less than 48 hours, our great nation, Nigeria, amalgamated by the British in 1914 would be celebrating its diamond jubilee. So, as convention deman
Costs and questions of today’s strike
If the joint Nigeria Labour Congress [NLC] and Trade Union Congress [TUC] general strike and protest go ahead this morning, as seems very likely, who
Mixed Metaphors: Buhari’s Niger Rail, Obaseki’s Time
I congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari for swiftly congratulating Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki following last week’s election. It was a decisi
LIFE BEHIND BARS: INSECURITY AS NEW NORMAL
Back in 2001, almost two decades ago, I had lived in South Africa as a student at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban. At that time, insecurity