Friday Column

Friday Column

Resilient Maiduguri flooded again: Assessing the Hope Future Assured College

I left Maiduguri Monday evening and I was already worried because so many residents were expressing fears that a serious flood was imminent. It came t

End Bad Governance Movement: Govt’s convoluted responses

The Nigerian government is increasingly responding to protests against corruption, human rights violations and governance failures as subversion, trea

Third West African Citizen’s Summit: Turning the page on subversion of democracy

This week, I was in Accra, Ghana for the third West Africa Citizen’s Summit organised by the civil society movement – turning the page (Tournons La Pa

Nigeria at the cross-road

Yesterday, twelve of us, as concerned Nigerians, democrats, and veterans, who are worried, embarrassed, and traumatised by the depths into which Niger

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