The VAT debate
These fallacies influence a lot of political debate in Nigeria, and exacerbate…
Monday Column
Monday Column
PDP without power
In politics, the future is a currency of little value. People are only ever interested in who is leading them now, not who could does so in the future
Our mediated politics
In this sense, then, the representation is far more crucial than the represented….
Northern prosperity
In my piece on poverty in Northern Nigeria the week before last, I argued that poverty in the region and, by extension, the country, is not so much du
IBB: The ‘president’ that really was
In Nigeria, ideas about our history tend to be frozen or cast in stone once a particular interpretation takes hold of the media or popular imagination