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
Nigeria, March 1 -- The autobiography of former self-styled "President" Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity,... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- This third installment in the Nicholas Said column series expands on my previous pieces and brings the discussion to a conclusion. Perhaps the final straw that broke Nicholas Said... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- This column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first bapt... Read More