Power Game
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
The journalistic infatuation with indulging big languages, cultural groups and centres of power and authority would make it difficult for some readers to come to terms with any platform payi... Read more
It is probably too early to be sure but there might be a new rulebook in the Nigeria Police. In what appears to be the most suggestive move in this regard, the Benue State Police Command has... Read more
