CAN Versus Nasir el-Rufai – Ebenezer Obadare
The controversy triggered by Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s comments about Jesus Christ on Twitter is instructive on several levels. Here, I shall limit myself to two immediate implications. In the first[…]
Police College, Police Barracks, Police Mentality – Salisu Suleiman
If the Nigerian police had not cold-bloodedly executed the leaders of Boko Haram, the country might have been spared the sect’s murderous rampage that has left large tracts of the[…]
Managing the Central Bank: Selecting Lamido Sanusi’s Successor
Should we be concerned who the next governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will be? This query assumes that we will go with tradition and not re-appoint the[…]
A Message for General Buhari
A concerned reader of my blog recently sent me an article which he requested that I reproduce with an urgent message for three-time Nigerian presidential aspirant and former head of[…]
Religion and dialectics of ethnic politics in Nigeria – Salisu Suleiman
The Yoruba, like every group in Nigeria, has produced some of the most cerebral and visionary people the world has seen, and also some of the most bestial buffoons. Chief[…]
Should We Let Nigerians Abroad Vote? – Mark Amaza
Nigeria has long held the enviable status of being the most populous country in Africa and most populous black country on earth, with 166 million people. In addition to the[…]
To Govern Is To Choose: A Review of ‘Lincoln’
I am fully invested in the Abraham Lincoln legend as sold to the world by Americans. I trust the system that scrutinises the past with obsessive scholarship and has settled[…]
Linking the Farmers – Yemi Soneye
Decades ago, oil replaced agriculture as the goose that lays the revenue, thereby ending the relationship between farmers and government. Farmers have remained in rural areas, mainly operating, in smallholding[…]
Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
The Case for Legal Abortion in Nigeria
Forty years ago today, in the district of Colombia, the American Supreme Court passed a law that guarantees the right of American women to legal medical abortion. Roe V. Wade[…]
Managing Monetary Policy
Again, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) meets this morning. In a marked departure from practice, the meeting this January (the MPC[…]