Nigeria is once again sloppily sleepwalking into yet another avoidably stultifying and potentially long-drawn-out ASUU strike that will snap the life out of what remains…
There are basically three legitimate ways to become a professor: by climbing the professional ladder in a university; by being appointed to the position from…
It emerged late last week that Communications and Digital Economy Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami (or his agents) possibly instructed Zamfara State governor Bello Muhammad Mutawalle to…
Take Buhari, for example. Before 2015, he was—or at least appeared to be—empathetic. He supported subsidies for the poor, railed against waste, thought Nigerians deserved…
The attack on and abduction of military officers at the Nigerian Defense Academy (NDA) is at once unprecedented, humiliating, and dispiriting, but they are not…
Popular narratives about Nigeria, particularly in the West, routinely dichotomize the country into a “Muslim North” and a “Christian South”. But this dichotomization elides many…
That even the vaguest pretence to traditional watchdog journalism is in throes of death in Nigeria’s institutional news media was instantiated by the interview Arise…
The appointment of my namesake, Major General Farouk Yahaya, as Chief of Army Staff to succeed the late Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru who died in…
In the last few months, I’ve noticeably scaled-down the frequency and intensity of my social media involvement with Nigeria, and scores of people have reached…