Re-printed with the kind permission of the author ================================= Many years ago, I got a call which sounded like a prank call or a fraud attempt. Let’s call the caller Jake. Jake admitted he didn’t know me, had never met me, was not even sure what I looked like but he had heard […]

I should begin by stating that Dr. Mailafia is one of the most profound shining lights of Nigeria. He’s an intellectual giant who can stand his own anywhere in the world. His economic and socio- political analyses of international, Third World, African and Nigerian affairs reflect the depths of his well grounded intellectual judgements garnered […]

By Ishaya Markus Introduction Governance in a socio-culturally diverse polity like Plateau State can be a herculean task, despite its seeming ease to handle, from the outside. This is because contained in this geographically-small space, is a ‘Commonwealth’ of 56 autochthonous ethnic nationalities, apart from a large concentration of ethnic groups from other states of […]