There is a cruel irony at the heart of African politics. The continent that birthed humanity now borrows its governing philosophy from those who, not long ago, used philosophy as a weapon against it. ...
When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for its quarterly leadership dialogue, I accepted without hesitation. There was ...
Nigeria’s growing reliance on so-called “peace deals” with bandits is raising serious moral and strategic concerns. Whatever arrangement that appears to reward marauding violent actors, without justic...
In the unforgiving theatre of Nigerian politics, death rarely arrives with a bang. It comes as a slow bleed, with governors vanishing overnight, senators switching jerseys mid-season, state assemblies...
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Nigeria is bleeding in places the nation rarely names until the funerals force a headline. In just the past two weeks, insurgent violence has torn through Kaiama Local Government in Kwara State and th...
Dear Lagos Elite, I get it. Makoko, Oworonshoki, Bariga, etc., assault your senses. They are slums. They are dirty. They are not pretty. We’d prefer high-rises overlooking the waterfront. They’ll be n...
A democracy rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned—clause by clause—until citizens wake up one day to discover that elections still happen, but accountabilit...
Last week, I shared a travelogue describing my visit to Taraba State, where distance is measured not in kilometres but in neglect and where a road becomes a referendum on citizenship. I anticipated in...
“Ultimately, one hopes this crisis will not end in mutual global destruction, but in a managed transition—where an old world order gives way to a new one without catastrophe. President Donald Trump ha...