Post-Truth, Pomp, and Private Jets: Tina Brown on the Erosion of Modern Reality by Lawson Akhigbe

If there is anyone who knows how the sausage of public perception gets made, it is Tina Brown. The legendary former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker has spent decades watching power players, monarchs, and media moguls manipulate the spotlight. At the recent Truth Tellers Summit, an event she founded to honor her …

When Journalists Become Political Courtiers and Interviews Become Political Theatre By Lawson Akhigbe

A democracy does not always die at the barrel of a gun. Sometimes, it dies beneath television studio lights, while journalists entrusted with holding power accountable sit silently as politicians explain why nobody can hold them accountable.

David Umahi’s Bridge to State Capture: Christian Prayers, Tinubu’s Portraits and the Privatisation of Public Power By Lawson Akhigbe

The First Niger Bridge belongs to Nigeria. It does not belong to David Umahi, Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress or any religious congregation.