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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

2018 Annual Islamicity Index Report for Nigeria

On 21st September 2019, Islamicity Foundation published its 2018 comprehensive country reports for Islamic countries. Islamicity indices are metrics t