THE KING WHO WASN’T A KING

Part Three: The Pattern Why this keeps happening and what it actually costs to be visible This is Part Three of a three-part investigation. [Read Part One: The Word] and [Part Two: The Street] first. The research on xenophobia in South Africa is not ambiguous. What is...

THE KING WHO WASN’T A KING

Part One: The Word What Igwe Ndigbo actually means and the one fact from February 2025 that almost nobody reported A note before you read. This piece was reconstructed entirely from what is publicly available online — news reports, diplomatic statements, official...

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PROPERTIES

The man who ran Nigeria’s legal machinery for eight years is now inside it. Abubakar Malami was Nigeria’s Attorney-General from 2015 to 2023. That is not a biographical footnote. It is the context without which the current EFCC proceeding doesn’t...

SEVEN YEARS AND STILL WAITING

25,000 Nigerian graduates did everything the system asked. The system has no mechanism to finish what it started. They studied. They got accredited degrees from recognised universities in the Republic of Niger. They obtained clearance from Nigeria’s Federal...

TWO VOICES, ONE FAMILY

Simi and Adekunle Gold just quietly became a family of four. On Wednesday, Simi posted on Instagram. No announcement. No build-up. Just maternity photos. Clean, spare, denim-themed. And a caption that said what it needed to say. “+1. 3.10.26. God bless my...