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The Wound That Made Him Every origin story needs a villain, and for a long stretch of Bola Tinubu's political life, that villain wore Olusegun Obasanjo's face. In 2004, Governor Tinubu carved 37 Local Council Development Areas out of Lagos's constitutionally recognised 20, arguing that a city of that density could not be governed from …
Screenshot If you recently bought a phone charger, a box of paracetamol, or a loaf of bread, congratulations! You just paid six people whose names appear nowhere on your receipt. In Nigeria, nearly everything you eat, wear, or swallow arrives by sea. Over 70% of the nation's pharmaceuticals and almost all its daily essentials pass …
Which celebrity would you love to meet, and what would you talk about? How he loved the world that he gave his life.
In 2015 the APC unseated the PDP and has governed Nigeria ever since. That is eleven years, which in political terms is not so much a tenure as a tenancy with squatter's rights. Mr Tinubu spent the first eight as the party's national leader, with Osinbajo, reportedly his nominee, installed as vice president. Since 2023 he has been president, with Kashim Shettima beside him. Whoever invented the phrase "continuity of government" clearly never imagined it applied this literally.
Look at the last thing you bought: the rice, the paracetamol, the charger in your pocket. Before it reached your hand, at least six different people were paid. Not one of their names was on your receipt. You paid every single one of them, and you never knew who they were.
