Power Game
All eyes are on the Northern elite again but in what sense of the word? There was a time when this would have been an aimless question. That was when what Prof John Paden called the c... Read more
Although the police authorities have assured of investigating the matter, especially the policemen who allegedly demanded sex and had their way using empty sachets of water in place of condo... Read more
The intelligentsia is any society’s barometer through their framing of what is happening and what such frames imply. The intelligentsia may not be a homogeneous entity but they are distingui... Read more
The resurgence of banditry in Nigeria remains the big story in town. It is everywhere in the headlines, one of the most powerful source of information for the generality of the people. Daily... Read more
Very few foresaw that the elite failure in Nigeria would be so total as for the book to make much sense when it was first published in the year 2000. Talking about traditional cures for mode... Read more
There is widespread fear that Mallam Aminu Kano, sage of the ‘radical tradition in the North’ must be turning in his grave that the idea of ‘who is his father?’ as a... Read more
The Sudanese military, it seems, came to a cost benefit analysis that it is not justifiable killing many people for the sake of keeping Omar al-Bashir in power, someone who has been there fo... Read more
Sighting a Prof Alaba Ogunsanwo on active duty in any country would be news. As a member of the second generation of political scientists who indegenised the discipline in Nigeria or explore... Read more
Cultists is what everyone calls them. Where that terminology is coming from and what it might mean are unclear but that is the reality of Otukpo, the most urban town in Idomaland in Benue St... Read more
By Jolly Ogbole Abu In this short piece, the president of Idoma Association in the USA/Canada calls for an ‘Enough is Enough’ campaign against police shooting of Nigerians to death for real... Read more