Monday Column

Monday Column

From the outside looking in

By December 17 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari would be 80 years old. He would still have a few months left of his second and final term as Nige

President Yemi Osinbajo?

Of all the leading contenders for president of Nigeria this election cycle, hardly any will be more difficult to assess than Vice President Yemi Osinb

Like PDP, unlike APC?

In a paraphrase of the old Hausa adage, let us say that there is no bad government but bad opposition. The APC government is in a deeper crisis than t

Africa in a troubled world

Ideas are liberating. They are liberating not only because they tend to endure for much longer than humans, which they do, but also because some ideas

Interpreting the Russia-Ukraine war

The Israeli philosopher and historian, Yuval Noah Harari, wrote in the Economist about then still looming military conflict between Russia and Ukraine