In 2023, after Obi defeated Tinubu in Lagos, MC Oluomo addressed the state. He warned the Igbo to sit at home on election day if they wouldn’t vote the APC. He wasn’t subtle. In that live broadcast, he framed  non-APC votes as a punishable betrayal. The police invited him for questioning, but the “chat” was more photo-op […]

Lagos is a bustling coastal city, so its vulnerability to floods is natural. But with a culture of indiscriminate refuse disposal, haphazard building developments, and lousy town planning enforcement, Lagos is the cause of much of its own flooding woes. Often, governments come like pirates or parasites — ravenous and impatient, looking for what and where […]

Good building materials are gone.  Everything is now fake—almost everything. The chronic decline took an acute turn after the COVID epidemic.  A  post-COVID nosedive. The naira started to plummet, prices soared. Surging costs of basic food began to drown the poor. People could no longer make it, so  manufacturers started to fake it. Perhaps to stay […]

A few days ago, things fell apart in Nepal. The country had seen political instability and grinding poverty in recent times, but this week it saw  the gates of hell open. The parliament was burnt. The presidential palace was ransacked. The government fled. Ministers were dragged through the streets and chased into rivers. The youths said they […]

Nigeria has a profound leadership crisis.  It isn’t just recycling indolent,  corrupt and manipulative leaders, it’s incubating a defective citizenship.  The necessary sceptical edge to watchdog democracy has been blunted. The citizenry is aggressively normalising political mediocrity.  Failure is excused. Mundanity is celebrated. Stagnation feels peaceful  For the poor, hunger and joblessness have acquired inevitability. […]