Nigeria, Oct. 16 -- This morning, we are at the public presentation of the book - Tinubu: From Renewed Hope to Despair; written by Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, Aliyu Sanusi, Alkasum Abba and Massoud Omar. The event was supposed to have taken place yesterday at Arewa House, Kaduna, a research institute run by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Due to "pressures from above", the university cancelled the booking. The organisers then went around other hotels in Kaduna but they shut their doors claiming they had been warned. That is the state of our democracy today as civic space is closed down. Undaunted, the organisers decided to "bombard the headquarters". As they closed doors in the provinces, they opted to go to the headquarters and have the ...