Issues of the Day

This keynote lecture was initially delivered as part of the opening session plenary addresses at the Fourth Annual African Renaissance...

True Northerners are the most upright, most accommodating and most humane of Nigerians.  In the late 1980’s, I was appointed...

Sometimes when an op-ed touches a raw nerve and enjoys wide circulation in Cyberia, there's the one reader who bypasses...

Trust them to sneak it in like a Lionel Messi goal. Somehow, somewhere beneath the din of #BringBackOurGirls and the...

This column is kiss-ing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala this week. It will in fact be the shortest piece I’ve ever offered...

I am not done with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s post-suspension politics yet. I stated last week that he is poorly served...

Led by Nasir El Rufai, Lamido Sanusi’s throng of friends, admirers, and supporters don’t seem to like him very much....

Keynote lecture delivered at the inauguration of the Connections Week of the Caribbean and African Association of the University of...

(Keynote lecture delivered at the Obafemi Awolowo Birthday Anniversary Symposium Convened by the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation. Lagos, March 4, 2014)...

If you cannot even come together against the local terrorism of an Iyaloja in Lagos, how do you hope to...