Do election debates really matter?
Since the Vice Presidential debate on December 14 2018 between the candidates of selected five political parties, there have been continuous spin no
Thursday Column
Thursday Column
2019: Opposition versus state institutions
By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year, it will be almost 20 years since its current experiment with liberal democ
Predicting the 2019 presidential election
As the 2019 election draws close, we should expect an array of election entrepreneurs and predictors to become ubiquitous. A few days ago, the influen
Nigeria, MTN and pseudo-nationalism
The recent report that two global banks – HSBC and UBS – have closed shops in the country should be a source of concern to well meaning Ni
Buhari’s ‘new affection’ for Jonathan and the 2019 Elections
As we nudge towards the 2019 presidential election, and with many people predicting that it will be more bitterly fought than the acrimonious 2015 pol