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Opinion

March 16, 2023

Key factors that decided Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election

The suggestion that one needed at least 25 per cent in the FCT to meet the constitutional requirement to be declared president shouldn’t even feature in the conversation.

Polling unit
June 24, 2022
June 15, 2022

Peter Obi and the audacity of hope

If Peter Obi fails, it won’t be because it is not possible.

Peter Obi
February 20, 2022

How to be a great teacher: An old man and his student

This is a new version of an old Indian epic story.

Cashew tree
February 12, 2022

We are all ritual killers

Study science, but Nigerians will not.

Ritual items used to illustrate the story.
February 12, 2022

Common ancestor of American Ebonics and West African Pidgin English

Centuries of separation haven’t severed our linguistic and cultural links. That’s fascinating.

Map of America and Africa
February 12, 2022

Nigeria and the price of sovereign innumeracy

There was a national census in 1973 which, as Karl Maier recalls, proved to be “farcical.” The results were never published.

Nigerian Map
June 6, 2021

“Fulanisation” of the North by the South

The Fulani are now lionised in the South as the lifeblood of the North and the sole designers of all that is ill with Nigeria.

Buhari and Osibanjo
October 23, 2020

Buhari’s Trumpian propaganda to cover up the Lekki Massacre

Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders.

October 11, 2020

#EndSARS: Buhari listen to Nigerians now before it is too late: Saraki

“There is a danger in the escalation of any protest movement, and #EndSARS is no different,” the ex-Senate President said.

Bukola Saraki