Notes from Atlanta

Notes from Atlanta

Buhari, Osinbajo, and how not to sympathize with grieving people

President Muhammadu Buhari has now established a template for “grieving” with people who are mourning the loss of loved ones to senseless

Buhari’s June 12 pandering and naivety of Yoruba Elite

In politics, pandering refers to the insincere, opportunistic appeasement of a group of people, usually a large electoral bloc, for the sole purpose o

Obadiah Mailafia: From Fulaniphobia to embarrassing ignorance

I normally don’t respond to responses to my column if the responses do no more than disagree with me. But when a response drips wet with pitiful

Great news on discontinuation of HND

The most consequential news story this week, for me, wasn’t the 2019-reelection-fever-inspireddeclaration of June 12 as Democracy Day and posthu

El-Rufai’s hypocritical xenophobia and Obadiah Mailafia’s Fulaniphobia

Gov. Nasir El-Rufai loves to flaunt his appointment of “non-indigenes” in his government as evidence of his cosmopolitanism. I know at lea