Governor Mohammed Umar Bago, the  51-year-old Governor of Niger State  who wears mullah-like beards, is once again trending in the country. He is the star boy of a state gone rogue.

One month ago, in Abuja, a small circle of friends, literary enthusiasts, human rights activists, politicians, public intellectuals and thinkers gathered to listen to Chidi Odinkalu read from his latest offering, The Selectorate: When Judges Topple the People.

The lethal cladding of extreme power could blind, and constrain a man, so much that he might fall into the ditch, and still think himself powerful…

“God could not be everywhere and, therefore, he made mothers” – Jewish proverb.

Sir (Chief) Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion,…

The political system of any society refers generally to how the society concerned functions. History records many types of political systems…