Friday Column

Friday Column

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

The North West Peace and Security Summit

This week, the governors of the North West Zone organised their inaugural peace and security summit in Katsina in collaboration with the United Nation

Galvanising elite consensus in Nigeria

On Thursday, the National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies convened a methodology workshop on how to galvanise the Nigerian elite for n