By Joseph Amenaghawon | The ultimate “ripple effect” of our work in Ibadan is the realisation that young people do not need to wait for a distant future to lead. The Active Citizens Hangout in Ibadan was not a mere…
By Lasisi Olagunju| Anyone who has watched a hunting party in action will understand what is going on. What we have is a hunting expedition: beaters scour the bush, flushing the political parties—like duikers—towards INEC and the courts, where…
By Lasisi Olagunju | “They chased us away from our farms. We thought it would soon be over. Now, they have also chased us away from our homes, from our businesses. Can you see? Ehn. Can you see? Can you…
After a deadly attack, a presidential visit, and a bold AI surveillance plan, Nigeria confronts a deeper question: can technology fix a security system designed to react rather than prevent? By John Onyeukwu | Development News Network | On…
If Africa is going to engage seriously with AI, the goal cannot simply be to be included in the margins of an existing architecture. If Africa is going to engage seriously with AI, the goal cannot simply be to be…
It is either Nasir El-Rufai is a very lucky man, or he is a very strong man. He was arrested by his friends, charged variously for multiple offences, none of the various courts has yet ruled on his bail application,…
I begin with Game of Thrones, a world not far removed from ours, where power, wealth, and revenge are the true currencies of politics. In Season 5, Episode 1, we hear this: Tyrion Lannister: What is it that you want…
Yesterday, I participated in a workshop organised by the Alumni Association of the National Association of Security Studies on the theme of credible elections and national security in Nigeria. In his opening remarks, the Chair of the occasion, INEC Chairman…
“As a child, I wished only to be relevant. I am now. I wished to have people pause and listen to me as I talked. They do now. I wished also to have people laugh at my jokes. They do…
By Lasisi Olagunju | London of the 1850s, like Lagos 150 years later, was a city of wastes and disease. It was the world’s largest city, and was a theatre of filth; its River Thames swollen with human waste,…
