Daily Query

Politics, especially in emerging democracies with weak institutions, often becomes the art of disguising personal interest as national interest. In many African countries—including Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea etc—individuals frequently wield more power than the very institutions meant to govern

Like a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhes in the uneasy throes of power’s withdrawal. His disquiet, however, is less the quiet lament of a fallen statesman and more the tempestuous fury