WHEN YOU LEAVE, YOU RESET

Why did I leave Nigeria and was it worth it? The Life That Looked Like Motion Nigeria doesn’t break you dramatically. That would be easier to explain. It wears you down in the margins. The two hours in traffic that should have been forty minutes. The generator...

When The State Turns On Itself

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Everyone holding power is either using it wrong or losing it today. Today’s through-line isn’t corruption. It isn’t violence. It’s something quieter and more corrosive: the moment when the people who built the system...

THE REVERSAL

The man who used the state as a weapon is now its target This is what Nigeria does with power. It doesn’t distribute it. It circulates it. Today’s wielder becomes tomorrow’s target, and the machine that helped you destroy others is the same one that...

FROM COAL TO CODE

53,000 people showed up in Enugu to build something The Enugu Tech Festival closed last week with 53,000 physical attendees, a global social media trend, and N10 million in startup grants distributed. The theme was “Coal to Code: Energy in New Form.”...

THE LOYALIST

Tinubu’s Lagos man is now IGP, 48 days before mandatory retirement Tunji Disu becomes Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police today. He’s being sworn in at the Federal Executive Council meeting. Here’s what you need to know about how we got here....