Friday Column

Friday Column

The Kalashnikov Challenge: Mass kidnapping, poverty intensification and self-destruction

The mass-circulation of small arms and light weapons among the civilian population has placed Nigeria on the path to self-destruction. When the minist

Sasha and the Shashasha amongst us

Nigeria’s core problem is the license to kill at will without accountability, the license to kidnap for ransom and increasingly the kidnappers are pai

Open grazing not sustainable BUT is ranching sustainable now?

The fastest way to create the greatest misery for the highest number of Nigerians is to try to break-up the country. For this reason, I always re-read

INEC and the creation of new polling units

One of the realities of Nigeria is that every administrative decision or process is read as and understood as being political. Currently, INEC is once

Exit of Service Chiefs, a time for a new approach

Finally, the President sacked or “retired” his Service Chiefs off on Tuesday and appointed new ones. As is usually the case for our “Baba Go Slow” Pre