It would have been another rupture of the hierarchy in another African country. That is what a coup is all about but this time, it has failed in the Republic of Gabon, the oil-rich central A... Read more
It was in late December 2008 when Dr Jean Ping, the then Gabonese Chairman of African Union Commission visited Jigawa State. Decked in Babanriga that seemed to have come straight from the bo... Read more
A claim of an Iroko tree stature has been made for Professor Abubakar Momoh who was, till his death last night, the pioneer Director of The Electoral Institute, the research arm of the Indep... Read more
It’s a week of huge chunk of attention for Africa at Chatham House, the British think-tank on international affairs. Beginning today, May 10th, 2017, the Africa Programme of the think-tank’s... Read more
