The transformative Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is mired in endless controversies. This is the fate of great monuments and, I dare say, great leaders.  So, my primary concerns here are not the hullabaloos  about  its actual cost and absence of biddings or, its ever changing designs as it meanders through coast and land. My interest here is its […]

Can an entire month’s salary buy enough nutritious food to feed a family for a month?
For many Nigerians today, the answer is no

“In every community, there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them, we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably, the most dangerous people seek power” – Saul Bellow, 1915-2005, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 124. “It was beautiful and simple; as all truly […]

From history, it is easy to find reports on early Nigerian elections which reflected some high degree of crudity which were enough to convince everyone that even those declared as winners were themselves not persuaded that they went through what looked like an election. In those days, politicians won elections by pouring acid into the ballot […]

Last weekend, I finally got to binge-watch The Polygamist on Netflix. The show is based on ‘The Polygamist’, a book by Zimbabwean author Sue Nyathi. Not surprisingly, Sue Nyathi said in one of her interviews, that she drew on her experience of observing polygamous households as she was growing up. I had read some reviews […]