Line of Sight

Line of Sight

Breaking the cycle: Addressing Nigeria’s fuel tanker explosions and flooding crises

We have seen this before, haven’t we? Perhaps a dozen or a hundred times, already. It doesn’t seem to matter. A tanker filled to the brim with highly

Matawalle and the politicisation of banditry

The discourse on the current state of insecurity in Nigeria will not be complete if Zamfara is not featured at the heart of that conversation. It is,

Charlatanism, pulpit scams and ritual murders

They get younger these days, don’t they, our army of ritual murderers? And we have a lot of them. Killers. Potential killers. They are all out there,

Sixty and four questions on our 64th Independence Day

I know you might be reluctant, but have you reflected upon Independence Day? Have you given thanks for witnessing it? Thanks that you have survived to

The urgent crisis of hope in Nigeria

Recently, I spoke to an old school friend over the phone. He seemed genuinely surprised that I spend as much time as possible in Nigeria and, despite