Briturkey, Britaly and fear of Britainistan
Before Britaly, there was Briturkey. At the peak of its powers, Turkey, or what was then the Ottoman Empire, controlled much of...
A professor’s pay-slip and lessons from ASUU strike
This professor earns N436,545 monthly. Of this amount, total deductions – including payments for NHF for which no forms were completed, and...
Pathetic stories washed up by floods
It’s easy to say floods have receded and we can get on with our lives once again. Or to say, well, weather...
Why is Africa playing with fire?
Africa cannot afford to roll back decades of significant progress in democratisation in a moment of self-justifying insanity. That needs to stop.
Anatomy of Wike’s endgame
What is Wike’s endgame? To avenge his displacement from within while securing the positions of his allies who are already carrying the...
Do campaigns have to be bloody to win?
Since the military railroaded President Olusegun Obasanjo back to office in 1999, our political campaigns have been anything but inspiring. Obasanjo, both...
How Meghan, the Witch of Windsor, killed the Queen
The attacks on Meghan are coordinated and targeted for reasons which her attackers find convenient to deny. Meghan is not like one...
Lessons about change from Ruto’s playbook
William Ruto offers an example that it is indeed possible to remove incumbents and their parties from within – strategically and peacefully, too.
Kukah’s stories and broken truths
“If the military did not strike when it did and the politicians had been left to find their footing”, Kukah said, “We...
Ruto: Have the hustlers finally ousted Kenya’s dynasties?
Even Ruto knows that in Kenya’s 59-year history no single election has been won or lost without knife-edge drama.
