Sir Humphrey: “So, I gather you denied that Mr Halifax’s phone had been bugged?”
Yes, Prime Minister – The Classic “Need to Know” Scene by Lawson Akhigbe
Digging Graves Before the Truth: The Tragedy of Custodial Deaths in Niger State by Lawson Akhigbe
Another grim chapter has unfolded in the heart of Nigeria, and once again, the state’s apparatus is rushing to manage public relations rather than uncover systemic accountability.
A Tale of Two Locations and One Citizenship by Lawson Akhigbe
Passports are supposed to be the great equalizers of national identity. If two people carry the green-backed book stamped with the Nigerian coat of arms, the constitution insists they share the exact same claim to fundamental dignity and justice. But citizenship, like roaming data on a prepaid SIM, appears to depend entirely on which borders your passport happens to cross.
Burnham’s Strategy: Manchesterism Meets the Politics of Looking Busy
Andy Burnham did not inherit a government so much as a stage set. After years of mayoral apprenticeship in Greater Manchester, he arrived in Downing Street with a ready-made philosophy called “Manchesterism” and a clear preference for the photographable over the structural. The high-street crackdown is not an aberration. It is the strategy in miniature.
Tinubu and the Great Business of Winning the Next Election by Lawson Akhigbe
The Nigerian voter, having spent considerable time queueing at polling stations, arguing about PVCs, fighting over results and eventually accepting that Nigeria had chosen its president, might reasonably have expected the new administration to get on with the business of governing.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 