Divorce can hardly be as shattering for the average Westerner as it can be in Africa, for instance. But there is still something of a surprise in the unravelling of the Gates. The theory is... Read more
Only very few people would say they know or would be prepared to risk talking about what is really tearing Nigeria apart. Regime ideologues and many northerners do not think it is Buhari’s n... Read more
An early evening attack on Jiddari Ward in Maiduguri town Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 turned a fiasco for Boko Haram combatants who were outsmarted by the military and killed in dozens. It is no... Read more
Amidst something that looks like a retraction, the story has, however, gone far that Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, had asked asked the United States to move its military headquarter... Read more
With just four more days to go, it is not gonna be a long wait before a statement from the Nigerian Left on the national question is made. That is a statement that could reverberate at the h... Read more
The Medium Daily Digest where this piece was originally published is a Western audience platform but the subject matter would apply elsewhere to almost all other audiences. There’s a long a... Read more
“Every reasonable Nigerian is sick to the stomach to read or hear of a governor running from insurgents who want to kill him in the state where he is constitutionally the chief securit... Read more
The Mambilla hydropower project and the Ajaokuta Steel Mill are the examples used to support the argument that the Nigerian ruling class suffers from a crisis of mission. When such a stateme... Read more