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Consider the role of an opening act at a concert - typically, an emerging group that lacks the fame to draw crowds on their own. Their job is to energize the audience while they wait for the headliner to take the stage. John the Baptist played this part for Jesus, though many believed he was the main attraction. It would have been easy for John to bask in the praise and adoration of the crowd.

A Review of The Historian and Society: Selected Historical Writings of Yusufu Bala Usman, published by Yusufu Bala Usman Institute, 2023.

In commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the death of Yusufu Bala Usman (1945-2005), the Yusufu Bala Usman Institute in Zaria assembled and published a corpus of his papers into a book.

A Review of The Historian and Society: Selected Historical Writings of Yusufu Bala Usman, published by Yusufu Bala Usman Institute, 2023.

Amidst a deep economic and financial crisis, the pundits of the neoliberal world are again prescribing a recipe for disaster, piling pressure on the government to privatize state-run entities and...

Documentation of the economy refers to the organised collection and recording of financial data, transactions, and activities within a country. This can include details about income, expenses, taxes, trade, and much more. The aim is to have a clear...

After having left government to the task of establishing a program to eliminate subsidies for basic goods, President Kais Saied has switched gears.

Africa is endowed with vast natural resources, yet it remains a continent with the poorest countries in the world. According to the World Bank ranking of low-income economies, 23 of 27 poorest countries are in Africa.

Only strong moral leadership can rescue this country. Our leaders are still living subsidised opulent lives. Pain and anguish may be corollaries of effective therapy. But both monkeys and baboons ought to be united in it. Decreeing misery for the monkeys while baboons live out their fantasies in wantonly pampered lives is a display of naked dissonance, a comical parody, that will birth an armageddon.

  Pro-market President Bola Tinubu threw his fellow citizens under the moving truck of market forces on his inauguration day by declaring that oil subsidy is gone, without entering his office to carefully study the real market situation in the oil industry do price control.