How many voters are there in Nigeria?
When folks complain about “voter apathy” they miss one important point: Nigeria guarantees the dead a right to vote. That is antecedent...
Nigeria’s playing politicians
Nigeria's playing politicians implies that our politicians play politics in the same way one takes part in a fun related activity or...
The year of the political harlot and split tickets?
Some people will miss the irony in the fact that Buhari’s party political successor in the year 2023 could be a man...
Japa: The verb that became a noun
As Nigeria prepares for a seminal vote in 2023, one surprise is that Japa is not getting more attention as a political...
Qatar 2022 miscellaneous
Despite the controversies over sex and alcohol, Qatar 2022 is also the most profitable World Cup in history. Much of the controversy...
Counting the kidnapped and the killed among Nigeria’s judges and lawyers
Emboldened by the absence of accountability, these attacks on judges and lawyers would grow in both frequency and brazenness.
Kill all the lawyers
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
"The first...
A season of political malapropisms
In the middle of high political season, we confront a judicial malapropism with slow burning reverberations of high political salience. And we...
Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi, January 24, 1971 – November 20, 2022
Among his pearls of wisdom, Mohammed Mustapha Olaroungbe Akanbi always insisted that “there is nothing like sudden death…. Death can come anytime...
Detribalised Nigerian does not exist; It never did
In reality, the expression “detribalised” is worse than a patronizing piece of colonial nonsense. It begins from a conceptual error that “tribal”...
