Apc 4 Life
Perhaps. We have heard from Senate President Godswill Akpabio many times, sometimes in strange ways, including embarrassment, such as when he could not pronounce a number he had written down…
Africa has long traded not only in goods and borders, but in something more elusive and more valuable: a sense of shared fate. From the liberation struggles of the 20th…
The most remarkable incident in Nigeria in less than a week, is all things considered how a political coalition has turned out as a collision, literally and figuratively, in the…
Nigeria’s opposition has, for much of the 4th Republic, resembled a crowded waiting room: full of ambition, short on coordination, and chronically incapable of converting grievance into victory. The formal…
In 2016, the presidency announced what might have been a turning point in Nigeria’s anti-corruption history: 300 companies and influential individuals, including retired and serving military officers, were indicted by…
West Africa’s security map has been redrawn with startling speed. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, once the reluctant pillars of France’s counter‑terrorism strategy, have expelled Western forces, embraced new patrons…
When President Bola Tinubu announced that Nigeria would extend the 2025 budget implementation deadline to June 30, 2026, three months beyond the original March 31 closure, the decision barely registered…
There is a moment in every national catastrophe when accounting must be done. Not later, not after the next election, not when the dust settles over the next mass grave.…
There are politicians who chase power, and there are those who come to embody the chase itself. Atiku Abubakar belongs firmly in the latter category. For more than three decades,…
Nearly 40 years ago in London, I was invited to dinner by a Nigerian woman I knew in Lagos. She had described the place in general terms, but I arrived…