The fate of almajirai in Nigeria
The almajiri system of education in Nigeria needs to be overhauled. Parents send their children to a spiritual leader who has no means of livelihood t
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2023: All eyes on the North (I)
From all indications the election year of 2023 will likely be a humdinger. With President Buhari constitutionally out of reckoning for the presidentia
France, Africa’s unwanted guest
On December 21, 2019, France enacted what amounted to a farce by contriving a renaming of the CFA, the currency used by its former West African coloni
From CFA to Eco currency: France’s invisible empire
Political colonialists might have left Africa. Unfortunately, economic and financial colonialists are very in control of Africa. And there is no forme
Recurrent happenings in Nigerian leadership succession
When he stepped off the Elder Dempster Lines passenger ship at the Apapa docks in December 1965, little did the then Lt. Colonel Yakubu (Jack) Gowon f