What Was Already Running

THE PARALLEL PATH  Kola paid National Insurance for forty years, went self-employed at thirty-seven without knowing the employer match had stopped, and received a full new State Pension of £230.25 a week against a Woolwich rent of £1,200. READ MORE → THE 472  Bunmi...

BEFORE THE BALLOT:

PART 2: THE PARTY This investigation is based on real events, legal structures, and documented political processes in Nigeria. Ola is a constructed character, a synthesis of multiple real experiences, built to show how the system functions at the local government...

WHAT YOU BUILT

Four stories about the cost of systems that work exactly as designed. Today’s through-line arrived quietly. Nobody planned it. The four stories in today’s Room are about different rooms, different people, different formations. But underneath all of them is...

BEFORE THE BALLOT

The candidate you keep getting was chosen before you voted. A few weeks ago I was with a group of friends. Jollof rice, Asun, and a conversation that went somewhere I didn’t expect. At some point someone asked why Nigerian politics keeps producing the same kind...

THE ABSENT PRESIDENT

Thursday 16 April, 2026 Nigeria buried a Brigadier General yesterday. It was a ceremony the Commander-in-Chief did not attend. Brigadier General Oseni Braimah was buried on Wednesday at the Maimalari Cantonment Cemetery in Maiduguri, with full military honours. He was...

STRIPPED

Wednesday 15 April, 2026 Nigeria’s telecoms sector lost 656 critical power assets to theft in 2025. The network keeping you connected is being dismantled. In 2025, criminal networks took 656 critical power assets from Nigeria’s telecommunications...