Who is against democratic structures in the North-East?
ON Monday, April 21, 2014, LEADERSHIP newspaper’s lead story said that plans were afoot to suspend democratic structures in Adamawa, Borno and
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’
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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
Sting dollars: Between the lawmaker and the oil magnate
PARDON me please, but in a manner of speaking, the s..t has hit the ceiling fan ofNigeria’s political and business elite; and
Prof. Jean Heskovits: Reminder on being Nigerian
PROF. Jean Heskovits, the long-term watcher of Nigeria, last week came calling in these shores, to present a speech. It was at
Obasanjo vs National Assembly: Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
ADDRESSING a conference of the (rather innocuous, pardon my ignorance) Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies in Lagos, last week, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo,
Muhammadu Buhari: The meaning and politics of language
“Kare jinni, biri jinni”: Hausa Metaphor WHEN General Muhammadu Buhari received a group of CPC loyalists from Niger State, in Kaduna last week,
The politics of national security
PDP got it wrong from the beginning. The party started by saying Mr. A can rule, and Mr. B cannot rule, according to