On Freshly Pressed today with Shopsy we talked about the Police Inspector General’s claim that they have seized 123 oil vessels and started prosecution. I found it funny… One of the big problems of Nigeria’s media is this inability to ask the hard questions of power. So the IGP released…

On Freshly Pressed with Shopsy this morning, we asked how the NNPC came to the conclusion that petrol will sell for ₦462/litre without the subsidy. Personally, I think the NNPC is just involved in unnecessary fear-mongering in order to protect their fraudulent gains from the subsidy scam. Our neighbours, who…

“Alleged ₦10bn fraud: Continue ASCSN officials’ probe” This was one of the stories we covered in Freshly Pressed on Smooth FM Lagos this morning. When I first saw the story, my initial reaction to the show’s producer was, “What is the point of this story from Oyo State in a…

When the race to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the UK started, one of the dark horses was a lady of Nigerian descent, Kemi Badenoch (nee Adegoke). In appealing to her UK Tory base, Mrs Badenoch said some things that Nigerians saw as unflattering. “I have seen what…

“We have seen your type before, and they all fizzled out. Let’s see how long you will last.” That’s what someone recently told David Hundeyin as recounted in his BusinessDay NG column today. That thing cut my soul because it is true. For all the flak that the Nigerian media…

In the 1963 movie, Cleopatra, there was an interesting dialogue between Mark Anthony and Octavian, the man who would later become Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome. Standing outside the Senate just after the birth of Caesarion, Julius Caesar’s son with Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was born, the following ensued: …

This morning, I was on Freshly Pressed on Smooth 98.1 FM, Lagos. Some of the stories we talked about included Malami’s attempt to bully the governors over $418 million, and El Rufai’s letter to Buhari about a new government in Kaduna… We have to look at Malami’s behaviour beyond just…

I was back on Freshly Pressed this morning with Shopsy and two of the stories we talked about were that of the reaction to the 50-year age limit that state governors are requesting for civil servants, and the return of the Bini bronzes by a museum in the UK. A…

A country’s capital is the city where its national government is located. This location is usually carefully chosen and designed to offer the best impression and position for a nation’s government and people to connect optimally with citizens and visitors. Sometimes nations change their choice of capitals to get new…