Yesterday’s fiercest critics are today’s loudest defenders, and the rest of us are left holding one question: what was the offer that weighed more than a reputation? The answer may say less about one president and more about what Nigerians now value.

One number is N3.1 trillion and the other is N11.2 trillion. They sit in different books, but when a country’s pipelines appear to cost nearly four times what its army, navy and air force are given, a citizen is allowed to ask a simple question: where is the money?

In one week, twenty corps members were “rescued” and then reportedly ransomed in dollars, a president danced while they were still captive, a military plane sat in a swamp for days, bailiffs and police met at a court order, and two rivals argued about homework. Nobody blinked. That is the real problem with absurdities in…

The World Bank’s March 2026 Global Poverty Update puts the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide at approximately 847 million. Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo together account for nearly a quarter of that population while holding just 5 percent of the world’s people. In the same window of history, China took…

A man went to deliver a ransom for a kidnapped relative of a friend of Dr Charles Omole. He had to pass three military checkpoints on the way to the rendezvous point. By the time he reached the third one, soldiers had taken a cut so significant that when the kidnappers counted the money, millions…

A Nigerian billionaire went on record defending his support for President Tinubu with a sentence that deserves to be studied rather than simply reposted for outrage: “Whether Nigeria gets better or doesn’t get better, I’m perfectly okay. In fact, I am banking on it not getting better.” In the same set of public interviews, the…

Lere Olayinka wanted to mock Emeka Ike’s political ambition. To do it, he posted screenshots pulled directly from a database that is supposed to be accessible only to INEC officials, containing the actor’s voter identification number, application details, and passport photograph. What was meant as an insult became something considerably more alarming: proof that the…

In 2010, Nigeria signed a contract to install 1,000 CCTV cameras across Abuja, financed by a loan of roughly $460 million from China. Today, only 40 of those cameras work. The other 960 sit dead in plastic boxes across the city, killed by a government that never funded their electricity or maintenance.

The Nigeria Police Force spent N1.67 billion on snacks in a single month. One carton of sardines on that bill cost N400,000. The 2026 national budget sets aside N8.05 billion for churches and mosques, tucked inside agencies whose actual job is agriculture, marine research, and cooperative colleges.