The alarm bells are ringing again to the effect that West African countries combating transnational terrorism face a terrorism threat unique to the region in contrast to other parts of the w... Read more
The spectre haunting Nigeria today appears to have successfully pushed out of everyone’s minds the question of what Nigeria should have been looking like if the current situation were not so... Read more
Who owns this joke is a non-issue. It is already out there, in its different versions! Like all narratives, it embodies its own violence. That violence is the same for those who would likely... Read more
An unproductive, non-performing but rapidly decaying Nigerian capitalism confronts a completely new ‘rebellion’ from a hub of faddism – popular culture. No one has done a better portrait of... Read more
Democracy is limping in Nigeria, partly due to political parties that are anything but such. The Progressive Governors’ Forum, Abuja author of this piece argues on how one of the collapsing... Read more
The double-edged nature of exposing corruption is manifesting at the global level as a World Bank report on corruption among elite of neediest countries is attracting its own controversy. In... Read more
Generalised insecurity in Nigeria sent yet another ominous signal the day before yesterday in his country home in Jos, Plateau State, (not Yola as incorrectly reported earlier on) when activ... Read more
By Ibrahim Sulaiman Jama’are The travails of an emirate without an institution of higher learning came to mind immediately the news broke that the Federal Government has approved the e... Read more
As stressed as the popular space and its culture is from the impacts of insecurity and an excessively weak state, it has not lost its capacity for creativity in bringing humour to tension. O... Read more
Social stalemate in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is far from abating. Not only do media reports suggest discord at the highest level of government, there is also no consensus at t... Read more
