"I heard this woman was on a night out when she was set upon by a group of gun totting men and raped on the streets at night. She desperately cried for help, but no one came to her aid. According to eyewitnesses, the rapists were armed policemen assigned to provide security in the neighbourhood." "Eeeh yah! See another life wasted. May Nigeria not happen to us!" "Look, the woman is still alive. Let's take her to the hospital. Hurry!" "Me. Lailai. Can't you see the woman is a victim of assault? You carry her to the hospital, and you…

Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will, once again, stage this rite of self-destruction in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State. The party’s primaries on Saturday was such a shambles, it has now been forced to conduct it again, with no guarantee of a sensible outcome for an exercise involving perhaps less than 500,000 members (parties routinely inflate their roll). If Governor Godwin Obaseki’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had paid to put a spell on APC, the outcome would not have…

The Quickest Way to Kill A Nation 1 Pepeye, nigba too m’owe Ki lo be l’udo se? And a dark, unruly tragedy is born As the Nation thrashes about Like a snake without a head Do you really wonder Why so much power Should be thrust upon Those with so little sense Do you wonder why Those with no eyes Have forced their way To the fore front of our chase? They who have no heads Have stolen our caps Those with no legs Have taken over the daintiest of our trousers Toasting the talisman of tribe and tongue Invoking…

On January 11, 2012, Bola Tinubu published a sober, thoughtful, deeply insightful, and penetratingly foresightful article titled “Removal of Oil Subsidy: President Jonathan Breaks Social Contract With the People” that uncannily prefigured the untoward consequences of petrol subsidy removal that Nigerians are currently grappling with. The article has trended on social media in the last couple of weeks, but I had never taken the trouble to read it until multiple people who I regard highly sent it to me in what seemed like a coordinated torrent of forwards. But after reading the 4,000-plus-word article and finding out that it predicted…