Nigeria, May 31 -- There is supposed to be a formidable coalition of powerful regional and national political forces working to upstage President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027. But this coalition isn't co... Read More
Nigeria, May 24 -- In the symbolic and political nucleus of the Sokoto Caliphate, an imperial, illiberal, power-drunk governor who is held hostage by what seems like politically conditioned rejection-... Read More
Nigeria, May 17 -- The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (... Read More
Nigeria, May 10 -- In the aftermath of Pope Francis' death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic Church would, for a change, elect a Black Pope. Well, they got o... Read More
Nigeria, May 3 -- For our every-last-Saturday-of-the-month "Diaspora Dialogues" podcast on April 26 on the topic "Kyari Out, Ojulari In: Politics and Corruption in NNPC," my colleagues-Dr. Osmund Agbo... Read More
Nigeria, April 26 -- If economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to prognosticate the chances of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's reelect... Read More
Nigeria, April 19 -- Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba ethnic group... Read More
Nigeria, April 12 -- When vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were "Fulani herdsmen," countless Hausaphone Muslim northerners sent ... Read More
Nigeria, March 19 -- In the wake of a Supreme Court-triggered crisis in Rivers State -masterminded by Nyesom Wike, whose outsize influence over the judiciary has earned him the fittingly dubious disti... Read More
Nigeria, March 15 -- Like a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhes in the uneasy throes of power's withdrawal. His disquiet, h... Read More