Thursday Column

Thursday Column

Deconstructing Buhari’s Democracy Day Speech

Buhari delivered what sounded more like an Inaugural Speech than a Democracy Day Speech, yesterday, June 12. The 3,114 word-speech was essentially his

Will Buhari’s Second Term witness the mainstreaming of separatist agitations?

With right-wing populism being mainstreamed across the world – there is a genuine fear that separatist agitations (micro-nationalism) may be mainstrea

As Buhari jumps into the ‘true federalism’ bandwagon

President Buhari’s recent call for ‘true federalism’ has left many people confused and wondering what his real intentions were. At an award ceremony o

As South Africa looked itself in the mirror

South Africans went to the polls yesterday (May 8, 2019) in the country’s sixth democratic elections since 1994. Some say the elections were the count

El Rufai’s ‘abrogation’ of indigene-settler dichotomy in Kaduna is right step in wrong direction

Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State, who rarely shies away from controversy or misses an opportunity to showcase his courage, recently, took a ver