Chido Nwakanma highlights troubling questions around the many blunders of the APC vice presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima.
Columnists
Jerry Eze’s Prayers on the Wings of Tech
On Jerry Eze’s Prayers, columnist Chido Nwakanma interrogates the phenomenal growth of a Nigeria church built on the Wings of Tech,.
Deploy civil language to 2023 discourse
In Deploy civil language, Chido Nwakanma calls on politicians and public commentators to keep public discourse high and elevated.
The Statistics Peter Obi Quotes
Columnist Ogbuagu Anikwe focuses on dangers of the statistics that Peter Obi quotes in his public interventions and how to avoid them.
How to fact-check boxing matchups
Ogbuagu eavesdrops on a conversation in a bar-room about two boxers, with a subtext on how to fact-check a matchup between them.
The Yoruba enemies I see
Some people are working hard to make me believe what I already know which is that I see many Yoruba enemies
Our fear of political fear
Our fear of political fear: Nigeria is in a state of political fear, with most people exhibiting overwhelming, unmanageable anxiety.
Alibaba and 40 Nollywood Ashawo
Alibaba and 40 Nollywood Ashawo is a play on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a Middle Eastern folk tale. Before anyone sues, the title does not suggest that the humor merchant patronizes Ashawo. Neither does it imply that this seedy business is a legitimate line of work in their neck of the woods. I […]
Tinubu and the eighth-year itch
Tinubu and the eighth-year itch applies a marriage superstition to the current Nigerian political situation
Everyone’s obituary is inevitable
When you write an article that denigrates the Igbo nation of over 50 million people, and make nonsense of some of those things that mean the most to them, do you really believe that your disposition is justified by the pay and perquisites that accrue to you at Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s The Nation newspapers?