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Malnutrition: A case of grasshoppers and presidential jets

The crowd outside the primary health care facility is noisy. The corridors are jam-packed, the atmosphere suffocating. Women and children in all posit

The spectre of unconstitutional change of government (UCG)

This week, I am attending a conference in Sao Tome, on the persistence of the threat of coups and other forms of unconstitutional change of government

The Koton-Karfe royal rumble, kings and Nigeria’s democratic culture

For about a century now, Nigeria has faced a conundrum: What does it do with its traditional institution? Yet, a little over a century ago, that quest

That’s not so obvious, Mr President

When as an undergraduate I read “The gods are not to blame” because it was on our syllabus, I fell in love with the many proverbs and other idiomatic

When democracy’s custodians go to the polls

Silly Americans. They want to be seen as the last custodians of democracy. Here is a country that has turned scandals into pop-culture fashion. Talk a