The Log in Our Eye: The Quiet Tragedy of Nigeria’s “Lost” Inmates by Lawson Akhigbe

The grim reality of the Nigerian justice system was laid bare recently in a devastating report by Arise News. In 2007, a 14-year-old boy named Gospel Kinani disappeared from Ogoniland, Rivers State. For nearly two decades, his family searched for him in vain; the profound grief even claimed the lives of both his parents. Eighteen years later, Gospel was finally found not dead, but alive, broken, and languishing inside the Port Harcourt Correctional Center at 33 years old.

Trump’s World Cup: Finding 11,780 Goals

The referee blew the whistle, the linesman raised a flag, the electoral officer counted the votes, and even when people grumbled, they generally accepted that the game was bigger than any one player. Institutions existed so that personal desires did not become public policy

Unknown Soldiers, Unknown Councils, Unknown Government: A Nigerian Classic Remix by Lawson Akhigbe

A whole Presidential Council with a fancy name is allegedly moving money for “foreign intervention promotion”? “Account? What account? We are also surprised o.”

The Watchlist That Became a Guest List by Lawson Akhigbe

The 2006 EFCC watchlist was not, in retrospect, a prosecution document. It was and we can now say this with the authority of twenty years of evidence, a directory of the durable.