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Column • March 22, 2019 07:16

Gama, the Darling of Kano State: Voter Inducement and Suppression

I spent yesterday afternoon in the famous Gama ward of Nasarawa Local Government where supplementary elections would be holding tomorrow. The place wa

Column • March 21, 2019 02:36

Re-thinking our democracy

The Presidential and National Assembly elections of February 23 2019 and those for the Governorship and State Assemblies of March 9 2019 seem to have

Column • March 20, 2019 02:52

Not democracy at gunpoint

Somehow I agree with Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s apt characterisation of Nigerian democracy. Largely, he says, it is a democracy without democrats. As

Column • March 18, 2019 02:14

Unleashed power of zero

Events arising from the March 9 governorship elections have left school pupils all over this country confused and have also rendered their teachers sp

Column • March 17, 2019 03:40

A giant called Pius Adesanmi

I never met Pius Adesanmi, the remarkable Nigerian icon who died in the Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 Max crash last weekend. But we were part of an NV