USA Road Trip South to North

Think back on your most memorable road trip. I left Houston for New York on a Greyhound bus road trip. Mobile, Charleston, Atlanta, Washington, and I arrived in New York two days later. I got to see America and Americans, the vastness and difference of regions.I concluded the world saw the USA as a country …

Tinubu’s New Tax Regime as Sovereignty for Sale By Farooq A. Kperogi

For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans to roll out next year. It’s not because I did not recognize its gravity, but because I am not an economist and did not want to wade into a technically dense debate armed only with moral outrage.  …

Briefing: what is leave outside the Rules? By Alex Piletska

Anyone whose life consists of daily references to the Immigration Rules will tell you that the experience can feel a lot like deep ocean exploration in the Mariana Trench: despite constant research, you will still make new discoveries, even when you think there are no further depths to which you can sink. And like the …

CSI Nigeria: Can’t Solve It (Season 64, Still Loading…) by Lawson Akhigbe

Gina Yashere once cracked a joke that should have come with a constitutional amendment: “If you kill someone in Nigeria, you will get away with it.” She followed up with the immortal line that “CSI in Nigeria means Can’t Solve It.” This was comedy, of course—except Nigeria heard it and said, write that down, write …