The White Paper

The White Paper

Emefiele’s cashless religion

The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, appears to be in a fanatical grip of a new religion he calls ‘cashless policy’. But a

APC against Tinubu?

The ‘cold war’ that has been going on in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) boiled over to the surface last Wednesday when the party’s preside

Random thoughts on campaigns

Election seasons are marked by such intense political activity that even those citizens who otherwise don’t pay attention to the news or vote can hard

Our national malaise

The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is just 128 kilometers—or about 85 minutes’ drive on legal speed-limit. In 1999, former President Obasanjo awarded a contr

Service to country

Sometime in the summer of 2017, I attended an event at the University of Nottingham, UK, that was marketed as some sort of grassroots-level Africa-UK