Thursday Column

Thursday Column

“The Igbo man doesn’t kneel down for anybody except his chi…”

This week I am continuing with my no-holds-barred interviews with some outspoken Nigerian leaders. As soon as we settled down for the interview in his

An encounter with Dr Junaidu Mohammed

Even if you do not like his guts, what you cannot take away from Dr Junaidu Mohammed, a Second Republic law maker who shoots from the hips, is that he

The Ghost of Qasem Soleimani

There was a big temptation last week for me to abandon a story I already planned for  the week and comment on the assassination of Qasem Soleimani by

Is China really taking over Africa without firing a shot?

The current debate over the Buhari government’s request to borrow additional $30bn (a substantial portion of which is likely to come from China), has

As we welcome a ‘new decade’

In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the controversy over whether January 1 2020 shoul