Governance
The Ibadan Declaration didn’t happen because the opposition found unity. INEC gave them a shared deadline and they had no choice. We saw it. Did you? The signal was in March. INEC released its timetable for the 2027 general elections. The deadline for party...
Sports
A man ran a marathon in 1:59:30. Chelsea somehow made a cup final. Arsenal are top. On Sunday morning in London, Sabastian Sawe ran 26.2 miles in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds. A human being ran a marathon in under two hours. In a legal, record-eligible race....
Latest
Four stories about the cost of systems that work exactly as designed. The four stories in today’s Room are about different rooms, different people, different formations. But underneath all of them is the same thing. Something was built carefully. It worked. And...
Football
PART ONE Tosin Adarabioyo. Chelsea. FA Cup Semi-Final. Wembley. The club around him stopped working months ago. Five straight Premier League defeats without scoring. One win in eight across all competitions. A manager sacked after 106 days. An interim in the dugout....
Two Worlds
Adams has been checking this app for nineteen years. Not like this. Before, he checked because he already knew the answer. The income had come in. The bills had gone out. The number at the bottom was what it was supposed to be. He checked because he was organised....