Politics and Governance

The UN Verdict on the Northeast

Dividends of Democracy as a Misnomer

Time For Synergy in Niger Delta

The president’s illness: combining the existential and social dimensions

Buhari and the Senate on SGF Babachir D. Lawal. between the devil and the deep blue sea

Buhari pleads in the name of God; his Defence Minister talk of remote and immediate causes

Osinbajo in the Niger Delta

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (6) conclusion: epic corruption and Buhari’s Nigeria- please think counterintuitively!

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (5): Religion and the occult economy. religiousity working in tandem with epic corruption

The Northeast in 2017

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa 2016 CB (4): Higher education and a different kind of corruption, a different order of corruptibility

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa 2016 CE (3): politics and governance in consumption without limits

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria circa CE (2): the lawyerly institution

Cleansing the Augean stables, Nigeria, circa 2016 CE (1)

Social Security as Focus

Post-truth’ and the anti-globalization of thr Right: reflections on language, bigotry and power

America’s Different Election

Trump and bitter memories of Abacha: rubbishing liberal democracy at home and abroad

A tribalism of the hunter-gatherer age in the American elections – what could this possibly mean

Obasanjo and His 25 Billionaires

The cautious and incautious victory lap before the finish line: again, Nigerian echoes in the 2016 American elections

“I will accept the results of the elections only if I win” – Trumpian Nigerian echoes

As the Chibok Girls Return

We are not in a short recession Mr President; we are in a serial recession that is close to a depression