Friday, June 26, 2026

ABDUL MAHMUD

September 15, 2025

The open society and its enemies revisited

The open society is fragile. But it is worth defending. For if we lose it, we lose everything.

Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo
September 8, 2025
Bola Tinubu and Donald Trump
September 1, 2025

Nigerian lawyers and borrowed robes of oppression

Our lawyers have long served power, not people.

A row of Nigerian SANs
August 25, 2025

Nigeria and the empty booth in Tokyo

Soft power is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Nigeria's empty booth at TICAD9 (Credit: Idris Ayodeji Bello)
August 18, 2025

Adebayo Adelabu’s vanity mansion and eternal life lessons

Why do some live as though the sizes of their houses measure the worth of their life?

Adebayo Adelabu with his mansion
August 11, 2025

Kabiru Mai Palace deserves credit for cemetery renovation projects

What Mr Mai Palace has done is restore dignity to the memories of our dead.

cemetery renovation project
August 4, 2025

Nigeria at Golgotha, crucified by betrayal 

Our country has drifted from the malnourished promise of a kwashiorkor democracy into the firm grip of an oligarchy where courts no longer dispense justice but serve cabal whims.

Bola Tinubu
July 28, 2025

 Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, transactional activism and the price of principles

True activists fight for the future. Transactional activists fight for contracts.

Gani Fawehinmi and Fela Kuti
July 21, 2025

As Hyacinth Alia and Monday Okpebholo become Nigeria’s latest petty tyrants

Governors aren’t elected to stoke tensions, but to calm them when they erupt.

Benue Governor Hyacinth Alia and Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo
July 14, 2025

Chidi Odinkalu’s ‘The Selectorate’ highlights Nigerians’ tolerance of rogue judges

It is a book about us: our passivity, our complicity, and our silence.

Chidi Odinkalu's new book 'The Selectorate'