The White Paper

The White Paper

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

Engaging World Bank, IMF again

Nigerian public commentators generally speak of the World Bank and the International monetary fund (IMF) flippantly and simplistically as “enemies of

World Bank/IMF in our brains

Let’s face it, the IMF and the World Bank (WB) have come to exert enormous influence on our public life, and our public mind, probably more than the N