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Mixed metaphors: How to spell commitment

I begin this one by congratulating President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday’s commissioning of Phase I of the Abuja Metro network, Nigeria’s

Policing the Ekiti elections, policing Nigeria

On Wednesday, the Ekiti State Police Command dispersed an elections rally organized by the PDP and its activist governor Ayodele Fayose. The police cl

Conversations with Sen. Ahmed Makarfi

My first text message to Senator Ahmed Makarfi, a two term Governor of Kaduna State and PDP Presidential Aspirant, introducing myself, and requesting

Dialling D for the Devil

Two seemingly unrelated events have made it necessary for this column to revisit a national pastime that has been grafted into our DNA as a people. Ex

Getting peace back to Jos

“For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well”  –  Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Somet