The Plumb Line

We all may have heard of a "failed state", a "failing state" or a "banana republic". A "developed country", a...

It's exactly a week plus a day today, since Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement in control of small Gaza, embarrassed...

Nothing so far has so clearly defined President Ahmed Tinubu's economic policy direction as did his 2023 Independence Day broadcast...

Nigeria, you're 63-odd years old today. Know what, I'm older than you by three bad years. So you'll call me...

Someone recently sent me a video clip through WhatsApp. It showed people, Nigerians in fact, scrambling for foodstuffs, 'donated' by...

The July 26 army takeover in Niger, Nigeria's closest northern neighbour, in more senses than one, led me back to...

The Tinubu federal government has announced a number of micro-economic measures, meant to cut the runaway cost of governance. The...

Sule Lamido, a former foreign affairs minister and two-term governor of Jigawa state, recently gave President Bola Tinubu quite a...

A trained medical doctor, eloquent but reticent, Dr. Andokari A. Shiaki’s whirlwind emergence on the political stage was both a...

Ask the average Malian this question, "Parles-tu Français encore?" (Do you speak French still?) Knowing where you are coming from,...