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October 8, 2022

Peter Obi’s quiet inroads into the Muslim north

Muslims in the North-central and the Northwest appear to be the only noncommittal, persuadable voting bloc.

Peter Obi
October 1, 2022

Why is Bola Tinubu hiding in London?

Forget what flawed, poorly designed—and, in some cases, transparently partisan—polls say about the 2023 presidential election. The auguries, for now, favour a Tinubu win next year.

Bola Tinubu [Credit: BAT]
September 24, 2022

Lies and truth about Obi, Atiku, and Tinubu

Everyone deserves freedom from malicious falsehood. It is immaterial whether we like them or not.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
September 17, 2022

Shettima as Tinubu’s Chief De-Marketer

Kashim Shettima’s versatile erudition may be his undoing in national politics.

Kashim Shettima
September 10, 2022

INEC’s Machina machination part of 2023 machiavellianism

The Machina machination is just a test run, which will be replicated and mass-produced if it succeeds.

September 3, 2022

Nobody can restructure Nigeria in a democracy

We need creative destruction to break out of the current system.

Nigerian Constitution
August 27, 2022

20 Hausa words in everyday Nigerian English

See 20 Nigerian English—and Nigerian Pidgin English— expressions that owe debts to the Hausa language.

Durbar panting
August 20, 2022

ASUU, call off this strike now

It’s cruel to casually dismiss the untoward consequences that the strike has had on students and their families who happen to come from the lower end of the Nigerian social scale.

ASUU Chairman Emmanuel Osodeke and President Muhammadu Buhari
August 13, 2022

Tinubu and Obi will either affirm or destroy these two theories in 2023

There’s a mutually reinforcing relationship between online visibility and offline success.

Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi
August 6, 2022

Lai, Kadaria invoke ignorance to penalise factual journalism

It is our sense of collective low self-worth as a people that makes us pay more attention to what foreigners say about us than what we say about ourselves.

Ahmed Kadaria and Lai Mohammed