Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... Read more
By Ahmed Aminu Ramatu YUSUF The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Ango-Must-Go protest of May 22-23, 1986, led to the shooting, raping and killing of students and other citizens by poli... Read more
This must be the shortest of any biographical works on Nigeria’s first and last prime minister but, certainly, the most philosophically turbulent of such works on “the golden voice of Africa... Read more
Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria Coming shortly after a Lagos lawyer’s recent claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is so sick as to have sublet his mandate to a cabal, the pr... Read more
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday returned to the instrument of a scorching discourse of the nation which, in spite of its concessions to the Buhari administration especially in t... Read more
Universities in Africa remain a battleground. Makerere University in Uganda, a senior member of the club of the most prestigious universities in Africa in those days is currently under lock... Read more
It is no longer clear whether it is a real story or one of those high class jokes made to taste about a top dog, a country or some event in international politics. But it used to be told a f... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja President Jonathan is a member of the Ijaw community, the fourth biggest in Nigeria, and from a state that produces about 40% of Nigeria’s revenues. After 50 years of being e... Read more
It seems former president Obasanjo would still successfully install the next president of Nigeria in 2019 before people wake up to realise he has done it again as he has always managed to d... Read more