The power elite in Nigeria has gotten used to wangling its way out of cross roads that it might not have anticipated the Buhari complexity before it now, whether he contests in 2019 or repla... Read more
A university is as good as what its academics publish. This is more so if it is a fairly new but an ambitious university such as Veritas University, Abuja which aspires to be an intellectual... Read more
A tree of Iroko proportions has fallen in the world of intellect, policy and Pan-Africanism. He is Professor Samir Amin who died earlier today in Paris at the age of 86. Born of Egyptian fat... Read more
It is bad times for spy agencies across the world, including Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS). The DSS’s hassles at home are coming at a time of multiple challenges for that re... Read more
It must be a mark of the academic sensitivity of the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, (IPSS) at the University of Ibadan for it to pay attention to the realm of communication and c... Read more
By Dr Nuruddeen Muhammad Exactly 68 years ago on this day, (08/08/1950) eight young men (as they then were) met somewhere in Sabon Gari area of Kano city and changed the political landscape... Read more
Alhaji Lawan Daura, the Director General of Nigeria’s domestic spy agency, has been sacked. It cannot but be in connection with the wonderland performance that greeted Nigerians as they woke... Read more
New video footage of the secret service siege on Nigeria’s National Legislature are pouring in from citizen journalists, onlookers and other observers of the spectre of a meltdown haun... Read more
Nigeria woke up to listen to, read or watch on television a secret police siege on the National Assembly this morning in the capital city, Abuja. It involved blocking all access to the entra... Read more
For those who live in societies which have conquered mass poverty and instability, the sophistication and make of the cars from which those who can afford them is an issue. And so when Merce... Read more
