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Davido: Why Yoruba and Hausa Muslims reacted differently to video

MUSIC star Davido’s social media promotion of a new song by Logos Olori (whose real name is Olalekan Emeka Taiwo)…

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IMF’s neoliberal sadomasochistic paradise is finally in Nigeria

It used to be that, like all normal human beings, ordinary Nigerians chafed at policies that choked and squeezed the…

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Jamaica is still West Africa in America

My wife and I vacationed in Jamaica for a week a few weeks ago both to decompress from our busy…

2 years ago

3 lessons from the ethnicization of JAMB controversy

OVER the last few days, Irecoiled in horror and disgust as the fairly straightforward case of JAMB exam result fraud…

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Subsidy removal as elite banditry, reverse robin hoodism

I really wanted to stop talking about subsidy removal for two reasons. One, senseless, right-wing, anti-people economic populism has become…

2 years ago

Why Tinubu’s hiring and firing frenzy excites Nigerians

After an unexpectedly sluggish start  (it took him longer than usual to appoint his spokesperson, which conduced to the luxuriant…

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Shettima: From “Boko Haram sponsor” to anti-Muslim Muslim?

Vice President Kashim Shettima is undergoing an interesting notional transformation in Nigeria’s fractured public sphere. Before and during the last…

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Why Northerners don’t call Tinubu ‘Jagaban’

Southern Nigerians have asked me two persistent, trivial questions about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The first is why most Hausa-speaking…

2 years ago

President Tinubu and dangers of subsidy removal

It’s either President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his inner circle didn’t read my April 29 column titled “Six Agenda Items…

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Femi Adesina’s parting doctoral claim

While Muhammadu Buhari and honchos of his eight-year ruinous regime busied themselves with a feverish last-minute plunder of the public…

2 years ago

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