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Nigeria's Coup and the Ethics of the "Good Lie"

Nigeria, Jan. 29 -- Nigeria's recent coup scare and the reactions it provoked have once again exposed the uneasy relationship between truth, power, discretion, and what many quietly describe as the "g... Read More


Abba Yusuf's Kano Fall: When Power Fails to Belong to the People

Nigeria, Jan. 24 -- When someone casually typed, "Finally, the much-talked-about Almighty Kano has fallen to the APC," it felt like a curtain drop. Weeks of suspense, anxiety, partisan arguments, and ... Read More


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Limits of Fiction

Nigeria, Jan. 20 -- The recent tragedy involving the literary giant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, following the loss of her young son at Euracare Hospital in Lagos, unsettled many beyond the immediate cir... Read More


Who Wouldn't Want to Be a Professor?

Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- I remember someone who was once offered a job as a Lecturer and rejected it outright. He laughed it off, declaring that such a life was not for him, and those around him joined in ... Read More


The Thin Line Between Precision and Tragedy

Nigeria, Jan. 16 -- A thin line often separates success from failure, and sometimes that line is so narrow that it hides in plain sight. Kano has dominated the news in recent days, momentarily eclipsi... Read More


The "mad man" I know

Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- A conversation just erupted online, particularly within a WhatsApp group, sparked by a news caption that read, "Akwa Ibom lawmakers propose 10 years imprisonment for women sleeping... Read More


Ali Pantami and misplaced creativity?

Nigeria, Jan. 11 -- That question has hovered over one of the most talked-about stories in recent weeks, following reports that Professor Isa Ali Pantami, a respected Islamic scholar and former Minist... Read More


Pro-establishment Activists as "villains"?

Nigeria, Jan. 6 -- A curious slogan has emerged in public discourse, one now casually deployed to brand certain nonconforming individuals as morally suspect: "pro-establishment activist." It is often ... Read More


Life's Refusal to Obey

Nigeria, Dec. 29 -- Life has an uncanny way of humbling even the most confident among us. No matter who we are or how carefully we arrange our expectations, life refuses to obey neat arithmetic, publi... Read More


Are There More Good Women Than Men in Nigeria?

Nigeria, Dec. 17 -- When the novelist, poet, and online influencer Hadiza Bagudu wrote her now widely discussed essay, "We Protect Our Girls but Neglect the Boys," perhaps she was not blunt enough for... Read More