Poor health has become the most powerful figure in Tinubu’s presidency. It walks in without knocking. It taps a man on the shoulder. It whispers a simple message. You are done. The politicians obey. They always obey. The presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, now sits like a court scribe before the Bogeyman, taking instructions from poor…
Today, Thursday 27 November, scholars, activists, and citizens will gather at the University of Jos for the Frantz Fanon Centennial Conference. It is a fitting location, for Jos sits at the crossroads of memory and conflict. It holds the scars of violence that mirror the anxieties Fanon described and the aspirations he refused to surrender….
The world is turning and reinventing itself to confront new destructive ideologies. Saudi Arabia is turning with it and reinventing itself. The country that once powered the most rigid streams of global Islam, born out of the teachings of Muhammed Ibn Abdulwahhab, is now rewriting its story and turning back on its less than glorious…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman The recent suggestion by Prof. Jerry Gana that former President Goodluck Jonathan may run in the 2027 presidential election, says a great deal about the state of Nigerian politics. A full decade after his historic electoral defeat, Jonathan is once again being presented as the potential saviour of the opposition Peoples…
Women in Nigeria remain grievously underrepresented in elective offices. In the 10th National Assembly only 16 women sit in the 360 member House of Representatives (about 4.2%), and in the Senate only 4 women occupy seats in the 109 member chamber. Across the 36 states, 14 states reportedly have no female state legislators at all….
Permit me to first of all profusely thank the organizers of this event, House of Representatives’ Press Corps for deciding that we will not be addressing some abstract subject matter but that we talk about the lifeblood of our national aspirations—the fuel for our infrastructure, our education, our healthcare, and our security. That we should…
