Thursday Column

Thursday Column

Tinubu: To pee or not to pee? Kyari: To deal or not to deal?

This has been a spectacularly revealing week for Nigeria. But then, which week hasn’t? Last week, it was the Oxlade leak, whose reception was a stark

Kwara’s unending war of the veils

The title of this column is not from a fantasy novel. Neither is it from an epic TV show like Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. It is from recent

That Senator Bulkachuwa’s leaked phone call

“Is someone dying?” he asked. “I thought someone was dying because I have spare lives in my library or trunk so I could fetch one for him.” The

How much does the corpse of a five-year-old weigh?

It is remarkable in a country where hundreds are killed in a matter of hours (take the recent Zamfara massacres for instance) without the appropriate

Welcome to silly season

Seasons come and go. It is winter in the US. It is harmattan in Nigeria, and in the political arena of my beloved country, silly season has just begun