Friday Column

Friday Column

Christmas in Niger Republic

This year, we are spending the holiday season in Niger to travel and see old friends and catch up with events in the country. We spent a lot of time w

Morocco and ECOWAS: Picking cherries and dismantling core principles

The big issue for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) this December is whether it would allow itself to be stampeded into accepting

My governor has no brain

Yesterday, yet another group emerged to rescue Nigeria from the abyss. It is called the “Revive Nigeria Group” and is led by Aisha Waziri

Politics and the institutional disconnect in Nigeria

On Monday, the Northern Union organised an anniversary lecture to honour Senator Olusola Saraki, five years after his death.  The theme was natio

African dictatorship and the coup that claimed it wasn’t

Today, former Zimbabwean Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be crowned President as had always been planned by the regime. He is eminently qualif