Abba Kyari, CFR, OON! Remember him? Kyari was the Chief of Staff (CoS) to formerPresident Muhammadu Buhari. Born on September 23, 1952, he served in that prestigiousposition between August 2015 and Ap...
We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue this way? Is it the fault of the system or the operators of the system? Sho...
A friend and I were texting today about how our mornings had not started well. She had lost her keys and subsequently missed both a dentist appointment and a work meeting. I had placed an essential fo...
Email: [email protected]: 08055001912 An enduring characteristic of our national politics is its fluidity. It has much to do with the endless instability in our political parties and the lack of ...
I met him many years ago in Abuja. That must be more than twenty years now. He was in Abuja with his cousin, Maxwell and they both worked on a pet project called Ijaw House together. We had a few civi...
Of all organs and agencies of government, it is only the Public Service that has remained unscorched until now. The Civil/Public Service is always remembered as being constant like the Northern Star, ...
A good number of people, including me, seem opposed to Nigeria leading the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to war in Niger. In one of the most telling anti-war metaphors, a Nigerian...
Arriving in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2010 to join in the excitement of the first-ever FIFA World Cup hosted by an African country, I got my first ever baptism of entrapment in an elevator. I...
“Bros, you dey town?” “Yes. Where you think say I for dey. I no tell you say I dey travel” “I thought maybe you would have gone to Niger.” “Go Niger go do wetin?” “I hear some civil society grou...
Today, Google, through its philanthropic arm Google.org, announced a N1.2 billion grant to “Mind the Gap”, launching an initiative that aims to equip 20,000 Nigerian women and youth with v...
