Boko Haram and the Nigerian state crisis
“Africa will not make sustainable progress in building democratic systems and fostering economic development until the continent acquires coherent, legitimate, and effective states.” I...
Backstopping the naira
Tuesday Column by Ifeanyi Uddin
About a year ago (May 22, 2013) Ben Bernanke, then Chair of the US Federal Reserve System, spooked the markets....
Jonathan’s voodoo development index
By Bisi Olawunmi
This our president will never cease to amaze with his simplistic ways and rationalizations. On the Boko Haram insurgents whose abduction of...
No, it’s not about luck!
Tuesday Column by Ahmed I. Shekarau
The just concluded World Economic Forum for Africa (WEFA) in Abuja offered President Goodluck Jonathan a great opportunity to...
Insurgency and the plight of El Kanemi Kingdom
By Eric Teniola
The Kanuris, under the platform of Borno, Yobe Peoples Forum, recently addressed the media and lamented the situation in the Kingdom of...