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
First was signing of Executive Order No. 6 on July 6th, 2018, followed by declaration of plan to identify and send for trial politicians suspected to be organizing mass killings across the c... 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
A mixed voice of co-operation, protest and contestation is coming over from Makurdi, the Benue State capital in Nigeria in the wake of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s on-going visit to the st... Read more
With just two months to go for the opposition caucuses headhunting for a political figure who can beat an incumbent, who or with what list are they working? This is the key question in Nige... Read more
Injury time is staring the effort of five main caucuses, individually and collectively, headhunting for a candidate with the political personality, track record and acceptability across Nige... Read more
Might a strategy of turning corruption allegations into a weapon of electoral warfare have run its course in Nigeria? This appears an inviting puzzle in the aftermath of the stalemate that h... Read more
