Looking for God To Find God, I Had to Leave Religion Behind
I grew up wanting to get closer to God. But to find God I had to leave religion behind. Read more. Read More...
Review: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad The Women in Lagos are Just as Crazy
Lagos men are not for the faint-hearted and Kuku’s women are not the women who ‘sit down and take it’. Read more. Read More...
What’s Happening in Mali?
On 14 January, thousands of Malians took to the streets to protest the sanctions imposed by the leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over delayed elections. Read more. Read More...
Data, Public Interest and National Security The Politics of Data Security in Nigeria
The Nigerian government is trying to create a database that links mobile phone users’ SIM cards with their National Identity Numbers—but can any government today be trusted with citizens’ sensitive data? Read more. Read More...
Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021
Nigeria’s elections are expensive and inefficient. An electoral amendment act proposes possible improvements, its deadline passed yesterday and there’s no indication it has been signed. Read more. Read More...
‘Almost All Great Writing Comes from Disciplined and Ambitious Readers’ Howard W. French’s First Draft
Journalist, professor and author of ‘Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War’, Howard W. French, spent ten years researching the book. Read our interview. Read More...
Elizabeth Olowu: Nigeria’s First Female Bronze Caster
Princess Elizabeth Olowu is a sculptor who is recognized as the first female bronze caster in Nigeria. Read more. Read More...
Former Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Has Died
Nigerian politician, Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who served as the governor of Oyo State from May 2007 to May 2011 has died. Read more. Read More...
Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy
In a consensual democracy, ‘politics’ is everybody’s participatory responsibility, and Wiredu’s ideas force us to imagine the kind of societies in which diligent senses of careful responsibility could be realized. Read more. Read More...
Sidney Poitier, the First Black Man to Win an Oscar Award, Has Died
Sidney Poitier, who in 1964 became the first Black actor to win an Oscar died on the evening of 06 January 2022. Read more. Read More...
