Is it possible that the much talked about fall back strategy of ‘maximum damage’ before May 29th, 2019 might have started unfolding? ‘Maximum damage’ in this context means shifting forward i... Read more
Nigeria is in the grip of party primaries as the ruling party and the dominant opposition party are both select candidates for the upper chamber of the national legislature, the powerful gov... Read more
It must have been about the most destabilising pressure on democracy in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. That is the wars that broke out between one godfather and godson here and there since... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has filled and submitted his application form for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). Under normal circumstances, that very... Read more
The murmuring against committing the huge sum of N242 Billion to conducting the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria has, at last, gotten the ears of the civil society in the country. A coaliti... Read more
The power elite in Nigeria has gotten used to wangling its way out of cross roads that it might not have anticipated the Buhari complexity before it now, whether he contests in 2019 or repla... Read more
Nigeria woke up to listen to, read or watch on television a secret police siege on the National Assembly this morning in the capital city, Abuja. It involved blocking all access to the entra... Read more
The alarm has been sounded that Nigeria cannot make it without a revolutionary exit. The country has attained a degree of rot and decay that cannot be managed without a revolutionary exit, s... Read more
Politics is war in Nigeria. Perhaps, that is what it is everywhere. As war is the ultimate emergency, it makes no sense to expect the combatants to be able to think through their actions. St... Read more
Unlike today, members of Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s generation did not think that if you published something on them, then you were looking for money or for some favours. They took what you publi... Read more
