When it eventually occurred on February 23, 2019, Nigeria’s presidential election was not without suspense. North-east Nigeria, home to a counter-civilizational insurgency for over a decade, was a natural location
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Traditional Africa had anecdotes and allegories configured to explain autocracy and how autocrats always met their waterloo. One of them is the story of the lion, the king of the
Before the 1999 presidential primaries, crisis engulfed the All Peoples Party (now part of the All Progressives Congress, APC) over the ambition of the late Dr Olusola Saraki. He was
I write this material with a profound sense of pain, a hapless witness to a history of degeneration, and painful descent into a life of near worthlessness and hopelessness, a
What do they say about karma again? Abubakar Atiku, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is being
Nollywood in this case represents Nigeria and Nigerian films. This clarification is necessary for those who may take offence to
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control
In what appeared to be a valedictory speech, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday addressed the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
Talk of the violent taking it by force, that is what the Nigerian students have been doing in the past
If this were a compulsory exam question, a number of politicians would simply answer: it depends. On what? On what
