The demystification of Tony Anenih
JUST by the huge margin of victory alone, and the fact that even the dinosaur could not hold his community, Adams Oshiomhole’s
Prejudice, ignorance, profiling and the Fulbe nomad
The last time I wrote about the FulBe nomad was on December 16, 2004. The piece was titled “A RESOLVE FOR
Edo guber election and democracy consolidation
THIS weekend the Edo governorship election holds. It pits Adam Oshiomhole, the sitting governor, against the PDP’s Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, in what
Dr. Haruna Salihi: Teacher, man of faith and modesty
I HEARD of the death of Dr. Haruna Salihi, Head of the Department of Political Science, Bayero University Kano, last week. I was
Sir Lucky Omoluwa: Award for an intrepid businessman
AS part of activities to commemorate Africa Day 2012, in the US, the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa in
Sambo Dasuki: Re-architecturing the security infrastructure
WITHIN a week of his appointment as the new National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki has displayed a greater appreciation of a
Et vous David Mark?
EARLY last week, one of the greatest beneficiaries of all that is good in Nigeria, David Mark, the Senate President, addressed a
Femi Fani-Kayode’s ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’
GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM is the title of Mahmood Mamdani’s very seminal study of the attitude to Islam in the imperialist world.
An engagement with President Jonathan
IT didn’t take a long time for me to accept to participate in the Third Presidential Media Chat, when Reuben Abati,
Kaduna: Of killings, curfew, rumour and hysteria
I HAVE been holed up in Kaduna since Saturday afternoon; my family is based here, so I travel between Abuja and Kaduna almost