Archimedes once startled antiquity with a sentence so simple yet so subversive that it still unsettles power centuries later: “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.” To any student of science, his name is not strange. Archimedes of Syracuse was the mind that bent nature to reason, the thinker who...

Politics is not a poetry contest. It is arithmetic tempered by sociology, history, geography, institutions, and human behaviour. Nations do not change hands on vibes. They change hands on numbers, spread, structure, alliances, endurance, and the cold discipline of reality. I learnt this again in a conversation with a friend of mine, a brilliant man,...

Nigeria has arrived at the moment where politics sheds ornament and speaks the plain language of numbers, pain, and conscience. This is not a chant. It is arithmetic with a soul. On one side stands 8,794,726, the officially declared figure credited to incumbency, power, machinery, and insulation from consequence. On the other side stand 6,984,520...

There are moments in a nation’s history when arithmetic stops being neutral and begins to take sides. Nigeria has entered such a moment. The figures are no longer merely numbers on spreadsheets; they are signals, warnings, and verdicts. They speak with a clarity that propaganda cannot blur and with a stubbornness that denial cannot erase....

As I observed the unfolding tragedy of what the PDP has now become, a quiet sadness mingled with a deep sense of prophetic vindication. Looking at what PDP has become today did not amuse me and I am not surprised, I have often said that when Wike, Makinde, Ortom, Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi were working...