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By Osmund Agbo I am sure you haven’t heard about the young girl from my neck of the woods who…
By Azu Ishiekwene It started like a grudge match. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was dealt a bad hand in…
By Owei Lakemfa General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, the Dean of Coups in Nigeria, finally staged a coup for himself on August…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu On New Year’s Day in 1991, 81 year old Siad Barre, Somalia’s third (and last) president,…
By Owei Lakemfa We were gathered. Some intellectuals, social activists, journalists, serving and retired diplomats. The primary issue was democracy. Is…
By Osmund Agbo But this overly simplistic view overlooks the complexity of the issue at hand. Mental illness is often…
By Azu Ishiekwene We have a measurement problem eloquently illustrated in a Yoruba tale about a Mecca has-been. The fellow…
By Rudolf Okonkwo When I started reporting and analyzing Nigeria in the 1990s, I was unsure of the monster before me.…
By Owei Lakemfa Census is very serious business as it requires the general mobilisation of the populace. In many cases,…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Evidence of the scope of the mess created by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under the…