In January of 2012, I watched with dismay as the labour unions, youth groups and civil society groups shut down...
Sambo Dasuki is a retired colonel of the Nigerian Army. A son of power and privilege, he is a scion...
In the history of elections in Nigeria I had never seen the type of reversals of electoral results by the...
“Upon the subject of education….I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as...
After almost a decade of extraordinarily accommodative monetary policy, which started during and in the aftermath of the financial crisis...
The noisome pestilence over demand for Biafra secession by Igbo youths over the last couple of weeks has, mercifully, subsided....
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will hold its 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Africa this week. To be precise, it...
From time to time my friend Africa-Man, the mad scientist, calls me from his windswept hideout at the Institute for...
The leagues are many, I really can’t keep count. The clubs are equally many, local and international, but I get...
Many Nigerians sometimes think their country’s politicians are the most impervious to reason, logic and the promotion of the public...
I first encountered the word “gerrymandering” in my post-graduate constitutional law research at the University of Lagos in 1988/1989. I...
Experience has shown that there is no single formula or recipe for building a strong S&T capacity in any nation....
In late October this year, I wrote an article titled “The implications of the resurgence of the Biafra movement”. In...
This week marks the first anniversary of this column. Precisely a year ago, on 8 December 2014, I made my...
Over the last couple of weeks there has been a low-intensity political upheaval in the south east of our country,...