Monday Column

Monday Column

Buhari blinks at Blinken

President Buhari’s body language in response to the worsening security situation in Nigeria is generally stoic indifference. No doubt the frequency an

Nigeria’s army of 50 million

When the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said a few weeks ago that the Federal Government of Nigeria shou

Nigeria’s next accidental President?

What does it really take to become president in Nigeria? One answer, which holds the imagination of many, is happenstance. In a 2014 paper on leadersh

Atiku’s political problems

It is no small achievement to rise to the position of Vice President of one’s country in so uncertain a career as politics. But since history seldom r

Abiola’s remains

So then, the rising political heat in the populace and in the media in the South West are all early and mild pangs of a perceived stillbirth. People a