When I sat with Atiku Abubakar and listened to him speak about Nigeria’s unemployed youth, there was no political theatre in his voice, only the kind of quiet gravity that Simone Weil once described when she observed that pain is often the beginning of moral truth rather than a political argument, a sensibility that resonates...

There are hours in a nation’s history when neutrality becomes cruelty. Nigeria has entered such an hour. Hunger now has a timetable. Inflation has acquired a pulse. Despair has learnt to speak the language of policy. In times like this, to plead for patience is to mock the empty pot; to preach endurance is to...

The All Progressives Congress has built what they believe is an indestructible fortress: 29 governors and the full weight of federal might. They stand behind these walls, counting chairs instead of listening to cries, tallying offices while the nation starves. They believe this is a permanent empire. But outside their gates, a flood is rising,not...

There are lies that survive because they are subtle.And there are lies that survive because they are shouted. The lie that Atiku Abubakar “sold Nigeria” belongs to the second category. It is loud, crude, repetitive, and carefully engineered to thrive in a political environment where memory is short, curiosity is discouraged, and outrage is cheaper...

What you published, Reno Omokri, is not economic commentary; it is gaslighting elevated to doctrine. It is a glossy sermon delivered to an audience whose stomachs are empty, whose transport fares have doubled, whose rents have ballooned, and whose salaries have been reduced to ceremonial figures. To celebrate so-called “price drops” under Bola Ahmed Tinubu...