The political weaponisation of banditry
Banditry in the North West is as endemic as any contagion in the world. From its first stirrings a few years ago, this menace has spread. The bandits,
Thursday Column
Thursday Column
Your nyama-nyama, not ours: A brief history of the dirty politics of pandemics
Sometime in March 1918, while the first World War ravaged Europe, a US soldier, Albert Gitchell, a company cook at Fort Riley, in Kansas was going abo
Nigeria is tired of Buhari and Buhari is tired of Nigeria
Did we ever think it could get this bad? That those famous, or infamous, musicians who are fond of eulogising their political lions, lyricising their
What do you do with children who kill another child?
“It is the best of times; it is the worst of times.” So began Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities. This is true of life in Nigeria today. It
Just another December in Nigeria
In 2009, American prisoner Jonathan Lee Riches sued the Guinness Book of World Records for allegedly attempting to enter him into their book as the mo