The agony of each day
Each day is becoming a difficult threshold to cross because it is littered with anguish and pain. Yesterday was particularly difficult because I was w
Friday Column
Friday Column
Nigeria’s crisis of presidential accountability
The President snubbed the invitation to address the National Assembly yesterday over the deteriorating security situation in the country. The initial
The Zabarmari Massacre: Drawing the red line
On 18th June this year, President Muhammadu Buhari, reprimanded his Military Service Chiefs over their failure to curb worsening insecurity in the nat
The challenge of ethnic federalism
In 2003, I wrote an essay drawing lessons for Africa from the collapse of ethnic federalism in Yugoslavia and other parts of the former Soviet Bloc. T
YIMA SEN and radical politics in Nigeria
Today, I offer a short tribute to our great comrade, friend and compatriot Yima Sen, who was buried last weekend. Yima was an elegant person, soft-spo