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
Monday Column
Monday Column
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
Poverty capital of Nigeria
Most of the poverty in this country is in fact in Northern Nigeria. The numbers are stark and scandalous enough. According to the 2019 edition of the
Our cultural descent
Our politicians and policymakers need to pay more attention to our popular culture. If for nothing else, the citizens, that is, the people whom politi
Of poverty of ideas
One reason Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world is because the poverty of a nation is a function of ideas more than anything else. Idea