Line of Sight

Line of Sight

Home and abroad, the world faces a chaos pandemic

It will not be an understatement to say that at the international, local and societal levels, there seems to be a chaos pandemic on the rise. While th

Katsina as metaphor for Nigeria’s scatter-brained approach to banditry

I have always been fascinated by the human immune system and how it fights infections like TB, as described in Harold Shryock & Mervyn Hardinge’s

Like Venezuela, like Nigeria

On Christmas Day, 2025, the US bombed Nigeria. A week later, on January 3, 2026, the US raided the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in the middle of the n

Fighting a coup abroad, while grappling with terrorists at home

There are many ironies to Nigeria’s intervention to foil a coup attempt in neighbouring Benin Republic. Alarm bells rang on Sunday when some soldiers

Going beyond Dangote’s allegations against Ahmed

On Sunday, December 15, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, went nuclear on a career civil servant, Farouk Ahmed, the former CEO of the Nigerian Mids