I had no prior information that the Kano State Government sought help from the NBC before coming up with a landmark decision on live political broadcast early in the month. But my source at the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, said there was  indeed a stakeholders meeting on broadcasting early this year where the regulator, government and […]

Now the hurly burly surrounding the fiasco that marred a part of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, is beginning to settle down with the retake of the exam and release of the result sometime today, I hope the ethnic warriors and closet bigots masquerading as thought and political leaders will, if they still have any […]

From last week,  this is the concluding part of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s counter-submission in response to that of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on the declaration of a state of emergency in the Western Region following the Action Group crisis there. “Thirdly I say- I said it outside this House and I want to repeat it on […]

The halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning is built into the calendar: midterm elections test the strength of the governing party by subjecting its record to the electorate’s cold appraisal. One of the defining features of American-style liberal democracy is the midterm performance […]

Quote: “If anyone should be held responsible for Tinubu’s victory, it should be those who elevated region and religion as the prime determinants of their choices during the last election” . I was recently engaged by a group of young Nigerians who had just registered for my graduate class on Governance and Public Policy at a northern […]