Beyond The Surface

Beyond The Surface

The political price of becoming visible

A few years ago, I was fascinated by the ambition of a serial-contesting politician who never stood a chance of winning that I had to ask if it was wo

A. H. Gimba: An unusual encounter

About fifteen years ago, I chanced upon his phone number and an idea struck. I had completed a book and, in my bid to have it published, I drew up a l

Jonathan’s Thanos moment

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a massively successful American media franchise based on serial adaptions of popular comic books, the morally polari

Bracing up for Buhari’s ex-convicts

What’s left of the Buhari brand is the illusion of his anti-corruption standing sold, especially, to a hero-starved country as the last hope of a peop

On Trust TV’s banditry documentary

Last Friday, I was privileged to attend the screening of Trust TV’s unreleased documentary, Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story, and enjoyed the conv