The next government is going to be a very unpopular one. There is no scenario where the government that succeeds the Buhari administration will be popular. If the government turns out to be mediocre, well, it’d easily become even less popular than its popularity at inauguration. If it goes on…

Once upon a time when a Nigerian president-elect got the people’s mandate, they went to sleep. That looked like a much-needed rest period until their siesta carried over several months into their administration. They then expended almost every goodwill they accrued from the campaign and eventual triumph at the polls…

Nigerians have a therapeutic relationship with elections. We generally believe that elections — especially the presidential ones — offer the dawn of change. It’d be interesting to explore our obsession with the presidency, considering the more consequential effects of the National Assembly, state assemblies, governors and the local government executives…

I was in the vehicle with a mobile police officer when we saw other road users breaking the law. What drew my interest was the presence of police officers embedded in the impending chaos. I asked the officer, ‘why your men dey watch as these people dey try cause chaos?’…

It has been said that Nigerians, at least at one time, were the happiest people in the world. Whilst you could argue against that at any point in time, you would find it a lot harder arguing against us being the most hopeful people. Hope is the dust our streets…

If you depend on Google like many people do, you would be made to believe that Dr. Francis Uju Adoms had disappeared into thin air, seeing as he was declared wanted by Interpol — thanks to the effort of Chive GPS and others. But whilst some depend solely on the…

Apologise, But Never on Twitter I should post the 10 rules of Twitter someday. Whenever that day comes, one rule you can bet your entire dollar on is this one; never ever apologise on Twitter. Whatever you tweeted, no matter the state or context, whether a casual tweet that was…

God will send helpers your way. But you gotta move like they aren’t coming. People are more likely to help you when they see you are already helping yourself. No one wants to help you every month or every year. …

We find solace and communion in the general failings and guilt of our leaders, almost as much as we share the comfort of denial — the denial that they aren’t us and we aren’t them. …