Urban Nigerians still speak a fantastic blend of languages, and the mixture has only grown richer, louder and more useful with time.
The fertile world of Nigerian Pidgin English by Lawson Akhigbe
Key Points Arising From The Oputa Panel
The Oputa Panel’s report remains one of Nigeria’s most thorough official indictments of its own recent past and one of its most thoroughly ignored. After receiving more than 10,000 petitions and hearing only about 150 of them in public, the commission delivered a seven-volume catalogue of institutional failure that still reads like a national audit of impunity.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Benin City Edition): The Great CCTV Ghost Town by Lawson Akhigbe
Remember six months ago when the Edo State government decided it was moonlight-and-magic time for law enforcement? With the flourish of a decree and a fanfare that probably woke up the entire length of Akpakpava Road, officials announced that every single business in Benin City must install closed-circuit television (CCTV).
The 4,800-Man March on the Civil Service: How Edo State is Swapping Governance for Loyalty by Lawson Akhigbe
In the grand, time-tested tradition of civil service not just in Nigeria, but anywhere pretending to run a functional democracy there exists a quiet, unsexy principle: neutrality. The civil service is supposed to be the engine room that keeps running regardless of who holds the steering wheel. Red, blue, green, or APC, the bureaucracy stays …
