The uncomfortable truth about death is that the world does not stop when you leave it. Your position will be filled, your responsibilities redistributed, and eventually, your absence will become ordinary. Live accordingly. You are not as indispensable as you think.
When elections become competitions between personalities rather than competing ideas about governance, public debate loses its most important substance.
Citizens begin examining who should occupy power instead of examining what power should be used to accomplish. That is a serious democratic weakness.
A politician can spend years failing people from his own ethnic group and still convince them that their biggest threat is someone from another ethnic group.
Division is a remarkably cheap political investment when the people paying for it are the citizens themselves.
Let's remove party names, tribal loyalties and campaign promises from the conversation for a moment.
Look at your life today. Look at the cost of living, your security, your opportunities and your expectations for your children.
What specific evidence would a presidential candidate need to show you before you trusted them with another four years?
There is a quiet bargain in Nigeria: those who have power expect loyalty, those who need access offer obedience, and those who have neither are told to be patient.
Everybody knows the arrangement is unfair. Many still participate because the alternative is costly.
How do you dismantle a system that survives by making resistance expensive?
Anyone can look strong while they're winning. Watch the man who loses everything and still refuses to become cruel. That's character.
Good morning X creators!!
After years of listening to men talk honestly about fatherhood, one truth keeps repeating itself:
Some men want children more than they want the responsibility of being seen.