Who would have thought: that one of the things the Twitter Outrage Machine – a small minority of vocal people who are easy to quote, and...
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s...
During elections in Nigeria, and even across the world, many people focus on the politicians themselves – whether they are good or bad or whether they...
I repeat: I am not you. From the middle of last year to early this year, a raft of my peers began to express disappointment with...
Because we run a nation building company that is the continent’s leading expert on elections, we routinely sit in on meetings with politicians who want to...
Let’s start from the beginning – I am completely in support of the #NotTooYoungToRun campaign. The campaign is based on a bill before the National Assembly...
Do our billionaires believe in nothing? This question came to me just after I spent the past hour with one of the most striking young people...
The confusion over the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as chair of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is one of the most remarkable pieces of political...
I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically...
I got a lot of panicked responses after my last piece; the panic focused on one small nugget of information buried within it: the fact that,...
In the world these days, it is impossible to have a nuanced discussion about too many things. The lure of 140 characters disincentives the complexity that...
You could feel the sense of panic when some of the enablers and voters (of which I am one, having personally and professionally supported him) of...
If you have ever visited Nigerian Instagram, then you have met them. Women – and men – gorgeously made up are now a staple of our...
“My person is my person,” Kemi (Lala Akindoju, as the world knows her) told me yet again, a few weeks ago. “Whatever happens, that one is...
{Click here to read the first part of this essay} *** Then there is the long-term advantage – and this is the more important one for...
A few days ago, I received this message in my email from a highly respected colleague with the Punch, which inspired this article: “Thank you for...
There is something curious that you might have noticed. Something as strange as it is weird. And it should worry you. We don’t appear to know...
Last month, the Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi shocked the nation. Footage of the governor speaking to students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH)...
This continues Monday’s piece on the 15 disciplines behind the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign. [Click here if you missed it] The discipline of leadership...
You know the tragedy already. The world does. And it’s one we have yet to recover from: 276 Chibok girls kidnapped from their schools under the...
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