Day by day I think deeply and un-deeply about this country: your country my country our country. I think about this country every blessed day and every un-blessed day – every second, every minute, every hour and hour. What do I see? What do I feel? What do I inhale? Continue Reading

Perhaps the most telling moment in the National Broadcasting Commission’s ban of rapper Eedris Abdulkareem’s track, “Tell Your Papa” is its acknowledgement that the song was already trending on social media. If they knew that many of us had already listened to the song, and we have almost endless means Continue Reading

There are two perspectives from which the apparent lopsidedness of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s appointments can be understood.There is the power politics perspective and there is the federalism compliant dimension. The emergent casus belli between the President and the custodians of the Northern Muslim electorate devolves on this lapse. It Continue Reading

The 2027 general election may still be a long way off, but the political atmosphere is already heating up, with politicians vying to succeed President Bola Tinubu. This is typical of Nigerian politics. Electioneering never seems to end; it transitions seamlessly from one election cycle to another, with little respite Continue Reading

The 2027 general election may still be a long way off, but the political atmosphere is already heating up, with politicians vying to succeed President Bola Tinubu. This is typical of Nigerian politics. Electioneering never seems to end; it transitions seamlessly from one election cycle to another, with little respite Continue Reading