Her colleagues call her the “Warrior Researcher” behind her back. Why they do so is not that clear. But anyone who listens to her addressing an audience might put it to the distinctiveness o... Read more
No paradox can be superior to the case of Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina who died yesterday. He has done so great for Africa with his writing but his sexual orientation is not the type t... Read more
The totality of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s involvement in Nigerian politics is such that, sometimes, he is seen as the problem while at some other times, he is seen as the answer. Combining i... Read more
Is there any guarantee that one governor or the other in Northern Nigeria might not trigger violence by a new attitude of fiddling with the traditional authority architecture in their domain... Read more
Let’s begin on a note of appreciation to both those who have reacted angrily to the first installment of this attempt at rating the presidents since 1999 and those who welcomed that installm... Read more
Is it possible that, by creating four new emirates out of the older Kano Emirate, the Governor Ganduje administration might have murdered sleep and can sleep no more? That seems to be the ca... Read more
In less than two weeks hence, Nigeria would have, for the first time in history, enjoyed 20 years of unbroken civilian rule. The presidential system which defines the 20 years has, as its co... Read more
Everyone else who reads must have come across it. That is the stuff that 50 countries have recognized the contender in the power tussle in Venezuela. Dave Lindorff has researched and found o... Read more
The Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative (KCCI) has expressed worry that the tussle between the state government and the Emir of Kano could deny the state the benefits of cooperative and harmo... Read more
As provocatively publicist as the piece below, its aspirational tone points at something about the emerging tendencies in university education in Nigeria. While some are talking of research... Read more
