A senior Nigerian diplomat like Nicholas Agbo Ella who has paid his dues in diplomatic service – broken bread with presidents, prime ministers and top intellectuals of statecraft across the... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura When my nephew in Freetown informed me two days ago that Davido’s Timeless album was Number 3 on the United States Apple Music Top Albums chart, I had to check the chart mys... Read more
There is wailing and inconsolable gnashing of the teeth across many spaces of mourning in Nigeria over the death of Barrister Etukwu Onah. Barrister Onah who became a Senior Advocate of Nige... Read more
Global civil society has emerged as the newest set of interpreters, powerful not by the criteria of control of state, population, taxation or anything structural as such but as managers of s... Read more
In an entangled world involving a geometry of power based on networked information and virtual technologies, the topic must be a hit within the assemblage around national security in and aro... Read more
The Directorate of State Service (DSS) – the ‘Eyes and Ears’ of the Nigerian State – is on an unusual warpath. It has gotten everyone worked up by claiming that proponents of an Interi... Read more
Half way or so into the Zoom session, the question as to why it was not being transmitted Live crossed my mind again. If that was not the conversation whose national and even global audience... Read more
The likely scenarios in Nigerian politics in the next six months to one year are beginning to unfold, beginning with the sudden departure from the stage of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chair... Read more
In the decolonial era, a graphic such as this cover picture sends a powerful message. It critiques the question of what sorts of materials are most appropriate or why the preference for ceme... Read more
At no other time and on no other issue has punditry become such a dangerous pursuit as on the outcome of the recent presidential poll in Nigeria. The danger of being (mis)read either as an ‘... Read more
