*By Richard Ikiebe For over 100 years, Northern Nigeria has been held together by a politically contrived twofold ethnic fusion expediently branded as “Hausa-Fulani”. It has served as an instrument of cohesion that aggregates demographic weight for political relevance. Now, however, beneath the artificial ethnic construct, a quiet shift is underway.Continue Reading

*By Richard Ikiebe In the fleeting, flattened world of social media, where only simple, singular ideas survive, politicians and media enjoy endless field days constructing and reconstructing reality, and bending it to suit their purpose. The custom of reducing complex public problems to one-line explanations routinely leads to confusion, chaosContinue Reading