South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, (ANC) has just issued a dramatic, seemingly conclusive statement, giving President Jacob Zuma up till the end of today to re... Read more
Coinciding with the week in which a volatile debate commenced in Abuja about whether there is a sustainable distinction between procedural and substantive democracy, the images from Kano are... Read more
Death has occurred of Comrade Patrick Ameh Ochiga, a unionist, politician and community leader in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. He gave up the ghost earlier this morning on t... Read more
By Joseph Opala and Gary Schulze Titled originally “A Message From America To Our Fellow Sierra Leoneans” in the Cocorioko, The Voice Of The People” where it was first published, (February 8... Read more
Pictures from the scene of the accident that killed Gen John Shagaya earlier today showed he could hardly have survived it. Again, a clear idea of what exactly happened is still difficult to... Read more
The witticism of the erstwhile Radio Kaduna Tiv soloist that the dead does not weep his own funeral cannot be over quoted. There is no superior text than it to apply in this case. For, if Ch... Read more
Democracy or the question of whether it has procedural and substantive dimension turned a slippery, divisive topic again this morning as top African scholars, activists and barons of the civ... Read more
“Your Excellency, there is too much suffering in the country: poverty, hunger, joblessness, insecurity, violence, fear… the list is endless. Our beloved country appears to be under siege. Ma... Read more
There is a slim reference nowadays to the narrative that a radio broadcast from an unidentified location, (some say from a diplomatic compound in Kaduna, others say from somewhere in Cameroo... Read more
Published originally as “The Taju Challenge” in May 2009 as a tribute to the departed, this piece serves as an appetizer to tomorrow’s inviting surgery on democracy that the Centre for Democ... Read more
