Last week, I got a phone call asking if I was available to join the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on a tour of...
What is a political party? One simple definition would be this: A group of individuals assembled around a common belief or set of beliefs, for the...
Today, I’d like to focus on some lessons – and possible action-points – that have emerged from our recent political and democratic (or pseudo-democratic, as some...
Today, I’d like to reflect on what I consider the biggest issues currently facing the country, and on how they might possibly play out in the...
A few days ago, a taxi driver in Glasgow, Scotland, struck up a conversation with me. When he tried and failed to guess where I was...
Whenever I have to talk about Nigeria’s economic ‘potential’, I refer to two key features. One is the intimidatingly tangible fact of our population, the largest...
On Sunday July 13, I attended the BringBackOurGirls coalition’s “sit-out” to mark the 90th day since the Chibok abduction, and the 75th day since a group...
I spent an afternoon last week at the ZODML Library in Ikoyi, Lagos with teenage pupils (JS 1 and JS 2) from two public schools, discussing...
News broke last week that the Nigerian government this month signed a $1.2m contract with an American public relations and communications firm, Levick, to influence the...
One morning earlier this year (January, I believe), while having breakfast at a hotel in Abuja, I realised that one of the two men seated at...
Almost 500 persons arrested early hours of Sunday along the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt highway in southeastern Nigeria, by Nigerian soldiers. They were travelling in a convoy of three...
The death of a former Minister of Information and Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Dora Akunyili, reminds us of...