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On the use of force

Obviously, officialdom in Nigeria has a very short memory. Soldiers and police of the Joint Task Force seemed to have all forgotten all about the fact

Can we really afford this democracy?

Let me take this one step at a time. On April 10 2013, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku  disclosed that  the Federal Executive Coun

The third annual lecture of Arewa Media Forum

As guest lecturer, we invited Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon on account of his integrity as a man of God and as a well-regarded scholar of comparative

2015: Many rivers to cross (I)

The 2015 elections promise to be different in many ways. If the current widespread state of insecurity extends into the preparations, campaigns and th

Learning African politics through Chinua Achebe (IV)

That we learn from Achebe is the contours of authoritarianism and the decomposition of the Postcolonial State. In “A Man of the People”, Achebe predic