The White Paper

The White Paper

Tinubu, New York Times, South Africa and the ‘Jet’

Although I am barely good at it, I have deep fondness for the Nigerian variety of Pidgin; the one language that binds us all together as a people and

Governor Bago’s burden

It has been a year since the governor of Niger State, Alhaji Mohammed Umar Bago, assumed office. I don’t know to what extent the governor is aware of

Cultural independence, seriously

In the 1950s, the late pan-Africanist and Ghanaian president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, had a brilliant, even revolutionary, idea for Africa which he phrased

Tinubu in Kano

Any observer of Nigerian affairs over the past week would struggle to decide which of the two is more vexing: the government’s completely unnecessary

Good policies, bad strategies

Let me begin from the end. The federal government must find a way to bring back the cybersecurity levy and its pension-funds-for-infrastructure police