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Tinubu and the “Yoruba Emir” of Kano

The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explicitly ethnic turn a few…

10 months ago

LGBTQ storm in $150bn Samoa deal teacup

In the last two days, my social media feed has been suffused with impassioned expressions of grief and outrage from…

10 months ago

Further thoughts on being sick and tired about Nigeria

When I wrote my column last week about being sick and tired of being sick and tired, I had not…

10 months ago

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

When I sat down to write my column this week, I was overwhelmed by the multitude of issues I wanted…

10 months ago

Tinubu’s June 12 fall: Humour, karma, compassion

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s harmless trip-and-fall mishap at the Eagle Square in Abuja during this year’s June 12 Democracy Day…

11 months ago

In South Africa, Europe on African Soil

I was in South Africa from May 16 to May 23 to deliver two talks on theory and social communication…

11 months ago

“New” National Anthem is national self-debasement

Nothing in my adult life has made me more ashamed to be a Nigerian and more inclined to completely divest…

11 months ago

Sanusi Lamido and Kano’s royal ding-dong

Kano’s Muhammad Sanusi II has been rethroned the exact way he was initially enthroned and dethroned: in the melting pot…

11 months ago

Nigeria’s economic apartheid in electricity consumption

I am writing this week’s column from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where I have come to…

12 months ago

The 2019 Tinubu speech we ignored is biting back

AT the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium on March 29, 2019, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then only a powerful but unofficial pillar…

12 months ago

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