By Moses E. Ochonu The recent rhetoric of micro-entrepreneurship advanced by Nigeria’s first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, harks back to longstanding assumptions about poverty in Africa whil... Read more
Overwhelmed by their own internal problems, Nigerians have been unable to pay much attention to the renewal of tenure for one of Africa’s symbols of the phenomenon of prolonged hold on power... Read more
By Prof Hassan Saliu Established in 1955 by the former Eastern Regional Government, the University of Nigeria (UNN) started operation in 1960. Like every other university of its age, it has... Read more
In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more
By Saleh Bature Before the debut of the video in which she criticised Ahmed Ali Dan Alu, the governor of Sokoto State, the 18-year-old Hamdiya Cidi Sherif was an obscure local Tik Tok villag... Read more
Prof Hassan A. Saliu In 1960, when Nigeria gained what some have described as flag independence, reflective of the nature of its relationship with major western countries, there was jubilati... Read more
The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) says Nigeria is down because it is operating liberal democracy that is unsuitable due to its underlying economic philosophy which the countr... Read more
Questions 3, 4 & 5 form the subject matter of this second part of the series on “Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Ma... Read more
It is difficult to write about burial of women/mothers in Idomaland without being essentialist about it. From Ekiti or Oyo State in the Southwest of Nigeria to Jigawa or Katsina State in the... Read more
By Professor Stephen Onyeiwu The author of this piece published originally as “Buhari failed to fix Nigeria’s economy. But he may still have the edge”, (https://theconversation.com/africa) w... Read more
