This is the second and concluding part of Yusuf Bangura’s tribute to Thandika Mkandawire with whom he worked closely for eleven years. It is the sort of stuff journalists like to call explos... Read more
To what extent it would be right to crucify them is open to debate. That is those caustic Nigerians going about saying that the Ethiopian Airline reminds them of how Nigeria’s inability to o... Read more
The double-edged nature of exposing corruption is manifesting at the global level as a World Bank report on corruption among elite of neediest countries is attracting its own controversy. In... Read more
The Federal Government of Nigeria has formally acknowledged that there are 90 million Nigerians living in poverty. The figure compares fairly well with those of other institutions concerned... 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
The contention on the ground is that there is nothing yet from any of the over sixty presidential candidates that addresses taking Nigeria ‘From the Third to the First World’. All the candid... Read more
After hauling historical invectives at each other to no end, the regional fractions of the power elite in Nigeria are enacting a convergence of interest that is sending ripples across the re... Read more
By Yinka Adegoke There was an intriguing front page cover by the Angolan newspaper, Expansão, this week. It declared, “Every Angolan owes $745 to China”. It also listed debt to other countri... Read more
It has been a week in which protests by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, aka Shiites; dramatic disappearance of the Mace at the Senate and row over presidential rhetoric on the youths occupi... Read more
