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The rotten seed: Why Nigeria keeps electing failure and expecting progress

Farmers once believed that planting seeds from any harvest — no matter how shriveled, diseased, or worm-eaten — would still yield a healthy crop the n

The Rotten Seed: Why Nigeria Keeps Electing Failure and Expecting Progress

By Mohammed Salihu Farmers once believed that planting seeds from any harvest — no matter how shriveled, diseased, or worm-eaten — would still yield a

Garlands For Our Women

I don’t want to begin this article with the cliché that what a man can do, a woman can do better. It would stir controversy, the sort that might under

Electricity Act 2023: A path to northern empowerment – a rejoinder

The recent article titled “The Iniquities of the Electricity Act of 2023 – South vs. North, Rich vs. Poor” is a deeply flawed and dangerously misleadi

Misapprehension of Fulani leadership in northern Nigeria

This is from a declassified Colonial Office file in The National Archives, London, that recorded several discussions on the Status of Fulani Emirs in