The White Paper

The White Paper

Nigeria and contagious autocracy (I)

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s description of a new wave of coups sweeping across Africa as a “contagion” is rather apt. Following a military takeover

Aisha Yesufu, the Nigerian Bar Association and Justice Tsammani

I never thought that a day would come when I would devote the whole of this page to writing about Aisha Yesufu, the hijab-wearing ignoramus on Nigeria

Is the North no more?

It is interesting, isn’t it, that just when we are talking about carving out a whole new political and policy agenda for northern Nigeria, just when i

Northernization without agenda (III)

The second Obasanjo years between 1999 and 2007 were those in which the lack of a collective northern vision, and worse, the lack of vehicles for purs

Northernization without agenda (II)

The years of military rule, beginning from the second half of 1966 to the third quarter of 1979, and then again from 1984 to 1999, were, for northern