A Coup Made In Nigeria, Sold In Ethiopia
In 1995, Ethiopia adopted a new constitution dividing the country into nine blocks of ethnic regions. With over 100 million people and 80 different ethnic groups, the country is second…
In 1995, Ethiopia adopted a new constitution dividing the country into nine blocks of ethnic regions. With over 100 million people and 80 different ethnic groups, the country is second…
After a long spell of portentous silence broken only by a few agitated whispers, the cultural establishment of the Yoruba nation would appear to be speaking up finally in a…
Once a bad political precedent has been set Nigeria, it is bound to happen again and again until it surprises no one and all the tricks that make it possible…
“China and Indonesia succeeded under authoritarian regimes. India succeeded in a democratic setting. We can do it.” President Muhammadu Buhari on June 12, 2019. Expectations were set high for June…
Never known to be in the habit of turning the proverbial other cheek, it is a big puzzle that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo chose to absorb a sucker punch of volcanic…
Much to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s dismay, the ruling APC is on the verge of stamping its mark on all three arms of government. The former president’s grouse is that the…
A sweeping fear of insecurity has descended upon Nigeria like haze in the harmattan. Not since the Biafran Civil War of 1967-1970 has the nation been gripped by such pervading…
It’s a tradition now. Every festive period or when a state governor is in a good mood, he releases a number of prisoners from incarceration. Usually, there is no real…
It is difficult not to read politics to President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowal of June 12. If posthumous awards for MKO and Gani Fawehinmi were truly intended to re-connect the President…
Professor Jibril Aminu as minister of education in the government of President Ibrahim Babangida, did everything he could to improve the lives of Fulani herdsmen with his programme on nomadic…