Last week, I received an email that made me cringe. The grammar was perfect, the punctuation flawless, but the tone was so harsh it could have frozen coffee. The sender—a department head—had technically followed every rule we’d discussed in previous columns, yet the message landed like a slap across the face. This got me thinking: we’ve […]

One of the absurdities of Nigeria’s pseudo-democracy is the fact that those clamouring for President Bola Tinubu’s second term are not flaunting his achievements. Instead, the battle cry is the need for him to complete his “constitutionally guaranteed” two terms of eight years, not minding that there is no such guarantee in the 1999 Constitution, amended […]

I struggled for hours to decide on the headline for this article. It happens sometimes. Yesterday morning, I watched a television programme where the presenters and guests used “KWAM-this-and-that” to describe the recent unruly behaviours in our aviation industry caught on viral videos. “King” Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, alias De Ultimate, KWAM-1, may not exactly be a […]

When I made the point that those who chose to criticise the Bariga LCDA for renaming some bus-stops in Lagos without looking at the action that provoked that reaction were being one-sided, I was merely calling for fairness in our evaluation of that episode. I affirmed the right of the LCDA to make that decision and […]

“Economics have an awkward way of overriding all other considerations“–  John Buchan Recapitulating on previous  experiences will definitely give us the direction towards which we can posit an argument whether we should be optimistic or otherwise about Nigeria’s present and future prospects. For, without a recourse to past experiences, the ability to make an informed […]