Imagine buying a VIP ticket to a concert that ended three weeks ago, paying full price at the gate, and then convincing your friends that you’re just double-checking whether the stage lights still work. That is essentially the energy behind a newly discovered line item in Nigeria’s approved 2026 national budget.
Akpabio, Oshiomhole: How sex threatens the Nigerian State by Festus Adedayo
This intersection of libido and governance is deeply rooted in history. In When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958, Professor Saheed Aderinto documented moral degeneration among the ruling elite, showing how men of power have long been implicated in what he called the “commoditization of sex.”
The Man Who Wanted Nothing By Lawson Akhigbe
One of the great mysteries of Nigerian politics is the remarkable journey politicians undertake between the words "I want nothing" and the phrase "I am honoured to accept."
THE SUSPENSION HABIT: WHEN A GOVERNOR FORGETS WHAT A COMMISSIONER IS By Lawson Akhigbe
Suspension is a civil service instrument. It exists to protect an officer's rights while an allegation is tested, precisely because civil servants have due process protections built around tenure and pension. Commissioners have no such tenure to protect, because they were never promised any. Subjecting them to the ritual of suspension does not protect them it borrows the aesthetics of bureaucratic discipline and drapes them over an office that was never meant to carry that indignity.
When Tactical Brilliance Meets Strategic Confusion: Washington’s Iran Problem by Lawson Akhigbe
But wars are not graded like Olympic gymnastics. There are no medals for technical execution if the end result leaves your opponent intact, emboldened, or—worse—adapted.
