The North in tatters
Northern Nigeria is in tatters, politically, economically and socially. Almost everywhere you turn, the news is of death, destruction and despair as i
Monday Column
Monday Column
Governor Bago’s burden
It has been a year since the governor of Niger State, Alhaji Mohammed Umar Bago, assumed office. I don’t know to what extent the governor is aware of
Cultural independence, seriously
In the 1950s, the late pan-Africanist and Ghanaian president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, had a brilliant, even revolutionary, idea for Africa which he phrased
Tinubu in Kano
Any observer of Nigerian affairs over the past week would struggle to decide which of the two is more vexing: the government’s completely unnecessary
Engaging World Bank, IMF again
Nigerian public commentators generally speak of the World Bank and the International monetary fund (IMF) flippantly and simplistically as “enemies of