First published on January 29th, 2026, this text is being republished solely to replace the cover picture of late Prof Billy Dudley with a different one as the previous one is said not to be... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki “Every age has its own manners, and its politics dependent upon them”, Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 Contemporary manners in Nigeria are amorphous, brittle... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki I am forced to return to the issue of qualitative leadership and good governance in Borno State of Nigeria again in the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s impendi... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki Being a civil servant, an imperial censor and a magistrate in the turbulent period of the Song Dynasty in eleventh century China was not an enviable position. It is... Read more
Is there nowhere in contemporary Nigeria with a story of successful containment of herdsmen violence? Would it not make eminent sense to relate to such a story in the context of current conc... Read more





















