A senior advocate of Nigeria, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, on a live TV programme was obliged to recommend the outsourcing of the force.
Good governance is heterogenous, and so is bad governance.
In democratic politics, these implicit bargains begin, of course, with the understandings that govern membership of political parties.
The stage could not be better set for the most competitive election since 1999.
A genuinely concerned and angry African American friend once asked me if congenital idiocy is the precondition for ascension to leadership in Nigeria.
The stage could not be better set for the most competitive election since 1999.
As president for eight years, Obasanjo vehemently rejected any suggestions to help restructure the country, which would have given the regions a fairer footing.
It seems that Obasanjo wrestles with anyone he fails to control and abominates anyone who resists his impingements.
For young people in particular, one question may be important: what would you think of a politician who promises to make the country too attractive for Japa?
Toyin Falola, an endowed professor of history at the University of Texas whom I have called the patriarch of African academics in North America, isn’t an everyday individual.
