Tunde Chris Odediran studied and practiced journalism in Nigeria. He is now a Technical Communications and Information Technology professional in the United States.
There is a ritual in Nigerian politics close to each general election. It involves politicians switching seats and vehicles, changing political parties, making friends and enemies in order to be…
There is a kind of evil that does not announce itself with a cutlass or a gun. It comes in a budget line. It wears a suit and babariga. It…
There is a saying that Trump Always Chickens Out – TACO. It has nothing to do with the popular American fast-food chain, Taco Bell, but Americans love that nickname for…
As soon as news spread about airstrikes in Iran, some Nigerians took to the streets in protest. In Kano, Sokoto, Niger, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe, and Kaduna, protesters carried portraits, flags,…
There’s a photograph making rounds on Nigerian social media that perfectly captures everything wrong with how wealth works in this country. It shows Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the…
Makoko clings to the edge of Lagos Lagoon like a prayer whispered over water. For more than a century, this fishing community has been home to the Egun people –…
Nigerians now have a new civic duty – to police the police for the government. It has become necessary because the government cannot be sure that its order for policemen…
There is tension across the nation. President Bola Tinubu feels and knows it. Not that we haven’t experienced worrying insecurity before. There is just an added pressure and focus from…
A familiar happy story in Nigeria: a 16-year-old graduating from a pricey private university, a 14-year-old accepted into medical school, a 16-year-old defending a thesis while classmates elsewhere are still…
You may think it is still two years from the general elections and much too early for politics to gather momentum and you will be wrong. The electioneering season is…