Monday Column

Monday Column

Michel Foucault in Nigeria

French philosopher and historian of ideas, Michel Foucault, who died of complications from AIDS in 1984, was one of the most original and controversia

As direct primaries beckon

Historians have long debated how epochal changes in society occur. Some think that social change happens mainly through ‘big bang’ events such as wars

Our blame-game culture

One way to describe Nigeria is call it a ‘blame-game’ country. Everyone is blaming another for everything, and the solution to any situation is to lam

To zone or not to zone? That is not the question

Nigerian politics is stupefying. However hard you try to get your head around it, there is a good chance you might still come unstuck. Let’s first be

A different VAT debate

But there are other lines of debate such as how states, individually and collectively, can increase…