There is a peculiar talent that governments sometimes acquire after years in office. It is the ability to mistake the symptom for the disease, to become so captivated by the manageable inconvenience that the genuine emergency fades into the wallpaper. Nations reveal themselves not only by the crises they endure, but by the crises they choose to […]

“Wike has one vote, just like every other Nigerian. The people of Rivers State will determine who emerges as the winner.”

The second construction is less tangible but infinitely more important. It takes place in the minds of citizens

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Friday night arrested three more persons suspected to be members of the kidnapping ring that abducted the dean of agriculture, Nasarawa State University, Professor Samuel Avengbe Okunsebor.

“Lessons are postponed, examinations rescheduled and children are constantly interrupted. Many of them now associate school with fear”