Maryam Abacha’s “alternative truth”

In an interview with Femi Akande, host of Television Continental’s “Politics on Sunday” talk show, Maryam, widow of former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, enjoined “Nigerians to learn to respect and be good to their leaders… because they are not that bad.” In what appeared to be a Continue Reading

Boko Haram and Islamist separatism in Northern Nigeria

Nigeria’s complex, complicated security challenges, which have seen the northwest corner ravaged by trans-border bandits, farming communities in its north-central parts pillaged by killer herdsmen and its north east axis over run by Boko Haram insurgents has reduced Africa’s most populous country to the continent’s largest human slaughter slab. Fifteen Continue Reading

Matters arising at APC and PDP

So sad that Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, until last weekend, chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not stay further at the helm of the party, to welcome the next batch of opposition governors defecting to his party. Three more are said to be on the queue to be Continue Reading