Lessons from the Kogi and Bayelsa Elections
The results of the Saturday November 16 2019 off-season polls in Kogi and Bayelsa States, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission have,...
The Resurfacing of the Hate Speech Bill
Many Nigerians were taken aback on Tuesday, November 12 2019, when news filtered that the Hate Speech Bill, first introduced in March last year...
The Quest to regulate the social media
The recent announcement by the information minister, Lai Mohammed, that the federal government is making plans to regulate the use of social media due...
Reflections on the just concluded Russia-Africa Summit
The first Russia-Africa summit which held in Sochi, Russia, from October 23 – 25 2019, has put Russia- Africa relations on the spot. During...
Buhari, Onitsha Fire Incident and the Power of Empathy
The recent Ochanja fire incident in Onitsha, in which a petrol laden tanker exploded into balls of fire after ramming into buildings in the...
Aisha Buhari: Victim or One of the Contending Villa Power Players?
An old video clip in which President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, was seen irate and throwing tantrum in the Villa recently went viral, renewing focus...
Between Goodluck Jonathan and David Cameron’s ‘For the Record’
David Cameron’s recent memoir, For the Records, which has largely been shunned by leading arts reviewers such as the New York Review of Books...
Nigeria@59: Dancing on the Brink
In 2010 John Campbell, the United States’ Ambassador to Nigeria (from May 12 2004 to July 19, 2007) published a book he entitled, ‘Nigeria:...
Osinbajo: The Travails of a Vice President
This is not the best of times for the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Since the beginning of Buhari’s second term in office, there...
Issues in Buhari’s Economic Advisory Council
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent replacement of the Economic Management Team (EMT) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed...
