In the first part of this comment published last week, I expressed the belief that it’s only a strategic analysis of the Boko Haram’s activities that will give us the clearest picture of what Nigeria is grappling with, and maybe help us to galvanize the national will needed to appropriately respond to the challenges associated

What will the election of François Hollande as President of France on May 6 mean for France? Reactions have ranged from seeing the return of the Socialist Party (PS) to power as a chance to finally reform the long-established complicit cronyism known as Françafrique, and those who sceptically feel that,

When Mike the Trainer stepped into the gym that evening a loud acclamation went up. Everyone started speaking at once.

“My friend, where have you been? . . .”

They have asked us to go and die.’ That was the reaction of a grief-stricken patient who was rejected at a hospital as a result of the current strike in Lagos hospitals and the extreme highhandedness displayed by the Lagos State government on the matter.

Following the submission, debate and adoption of the report of the Farouk Lawan-led House of Representatives ad hoc committee on fuel subsidy payouts for the period 2009-2011 some weeks ago, public opinions on its far-reaching recommendations are equally far-reaching – from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The drive among investors to invest in and explore the Nigerian petroleum market is dying; instead, there is a growing appetite for Africa’s new frontier petroleum markets.

Owoye Andrew Azazi, the national security adviser (NSA) to the president, was quoted last week as saying that the decisions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were responsible for the increase in violence in Nigeria.

Corruption in Nigeria, as I wrote last week, has reached epidemic proportions. The greatest evidence of this are the scandalous revelations that have been emerging from the ongoing Senate Committee investigation on pensions.

Now that Boko Haram has somehow been allowed to emerge the most powerful agenda-setter in the economic and socio-political affairs of Nigeria by highly-placed public officials – who would rather engage in a comedy of errors (that verges more on subterfuge than sincere errors of omission or commission)

If last week I scattered Shakespeare over this column, my heading this week takes a line from an old-fashioned popular song, ‘The Party’s Over’. It announces one of my periodic sorties into British domestic politics.