The Nigerian republic does not merely need judges learned in law; it needs judges incapable of being purchased by political vanity.
To frame President Tinubu as uniquely anti-democratic in Nigeria’s history is not to deny the flaws of those who came before him.
What the military hierarchy and the ruling party once dismissed with emphatic denials has now assumed the weight of undeniable truth.
I find Dangote’s call for stronger regional integration to be timely and necessary.
The burden that now rests on the nation’s top electoral umpire transcends the narrow issue of a social media handle.
The role of Governor Caleb Mutfwang in this theatre of sorrow raises difficult questions of its own.
There is something more troubling about us, about how we have come to accommodate this abnormality as though it were inevitable.
Nigeria reached its post-hegemonic moment, not through a single dramatic event but through a slow, wearing away of legitimacy.
Military formations must traverse enormous distances to reach remote communities, while roads that should serve as arteries of commerce become vulnerable corridors for travellers.
This does not mean that state police are inherently doomed.
