Friday Column

Friday Column

Nigerians, where is the outrage?

I have said this before, one of my greatest fears about the future of Nigeria is our collective loss of the capacity for anger. The political class kn

Imperative of a return to policing Nigeria

Nigeria has not been policed for decades and the evidence to prove it is everywhere. Rural Nigeria and increasingly, urban Nigeria, are not governed s

Prof. Jinadu and the struggle against beaching electoral democracy

Last week, our mentor, friend and great advocate for electoral democracy, Prof. Adele Jinadu, celebrated his eightieth birthday (we share the same bir

Mustapha Gajibo and the dream of building the Nigerian electric vehicle

After some discussions on the encouraging story of a young entrepreneur in our Barewa Old Boys WhatsApp group, a couple of classmates and I decided to

Policy-making as make-believe

Nigerian policymakers and implementors love fiction, and we as citizens play along. I just remembered that our next census is going to be in April, im