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. …

No one has been fired for the fiasco at Kuje, much less arrested. An indication of indifference about Nigeria’s security arrangements, which are falling apart. In my latest column for Al Jazeera, I argue that based on the design, we were always going to come to this point. Upon independence…

This is an unfiltered version of my column in BusinessDay yesterday… Last month, the US Supreme Court did what had been expected for quite a bit and overturned the Roe v Wade ruling which had made abortion a constitutional right. The right to abortion will now revert to the states…

Except for my writing obligations, I’ve been off social media because I’m working on a project. But a discussion with a group of friends this evening about the coming 2023 elections has me writing this… In an ideal situation, a Muslim-Muslim ticket or a Christian-Christian ticket should not be a…

Nigerians were recently hit with news of the arrest of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife who were charged to the Uxbridge Magistrate Court in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to facilitate the travel of another person for the purpose of organ harvesting. Initial reports suggested…

There’s a major political argument that’s been going on in my alumni WhatsApp group for days. Supporters of Okwute v supporters of the Jagaban. …

Last night a uniformed man holding a gun told me, “I fit shoot you and nothing go happen.” To be fair, it was said in jest. I’d said something cynical about him wasting his time where he was, and he’d have been better off servicing Burna Boy. …

As I tend to do with my write-ups on this platform, I made a thread out of yesterday’s on Twitter last night. I typically don’t engage on my threads because for the most part, most people on social media aren’t good faith discussants. But yesterday, I engaged a few people…