Election without political parties: outlook towards 2027, by Usman Sarki
“Political parties created democracy, and modern democracy is unthinkable save in terms of the parties.” — E. E. Schattschneider I sometimes wonder if Schattschneider would review his opinion on the centrality of political parties in a democratic dispensation if he had anticipated the situation in Nigeria today. In 2022, I was invited to serve as […]
I wish you enough this year
A half-illiterate who became a First Lady still didn’t think God has done enough for her
Trust!
Blessed are those who are not expecting, for they shall not be disappointed
Wealth and abstruse NNPC petroleum operations
It is embarrassingly unimaginable that today we sell crude oil for an average of US$350 a ton and buy back refined imported products and derivatives from that quantity for as much as US$3000
Conversations with African liberation fighters
WHEN I boarded the protocol bus at Algiers Airport on November 28, 2016, a lady politely greeted me in faulty Yoruba. Given my dressing, she guessed correctly that I am Nigerian.
An exemplary daughter of Africa
WHEN we were young (many moons ago!), I shared a flat in London with a clever, vivacious and beautiful fellow journalist called Aminatta Forna. Her mother was Scottish. Her father, Mohammed Forna, a highly principled native of Sierra Leone, had started his career as a medical doctor, then branched into politics.
