The White Paper

The White Paper

Boko Halal in Borno

The Boko Haram insurgency is quite simply the biggest security threat Nigeria has faced since the 1960s. It is a two-pronged insurgency: the one viole

INEC and the legitimacy of 2027 election

When I think around the 2027 election, I see President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a man trying to enter his own house by jumping over the fence. You will ge

Bago vs Malagi: Rematch for the ages?

Unlike in many northern states where politics can be feisty, it is generally breezy and sleepy in Niger State. This is true whether during election cy

Tinubu’s pro-colonial foreign policy

Seventy-three years ago, almost to the day on March 31 1953, the late Chief Anthony Enahoro, then a member of the federal House of Representatives in

Northern governors must look in the mirror (II)

In the first installment of this series two weeks ago, we made the case that one of the most consequential developments in Nigeria in recent years is