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Back in October 2025, I was just settling into the routine of managing a different kind of newsroom to the conventional ones I’ve spent much of my career in, and the new team was presented with a challenge. Happening a few thousand miles to the east of our Accra workspace in Tanzania, was what most […]

This morning like many other mornings, I opened my Twitter app and I checked my direct messages. I saw a message from PIDOM NIGERIA, who is a familiar face in my inbox and I opened it. Thus began a long and winding story that has occupied my entire day, and is still far from over. […]

Flat 2, 58 Jagunmolu Street, Bariga, Lagos.That was my address back in 2018, when I was a fresh-faced 28 year-old finally making a name for myself in the media and journalism spaces I had always dreamed of breaking into. At the time, I was a writer on Channels TV’s hit political satire show The Other […]

The date was May 15, 2023, and the venue was the ILEC Conference Centre in West London. I was preparing to deliver my keynote address at a press conference organised by the Coalition of Nigerians Living in the United Kingdom. Nigeria’s 2023 ‘elections’ had allegedly taken place a few weeks prior, and amid the flurry […]

Exactly 2 years ago, I took a decision that completely upended my life in ways I could not begin to anticipate. That decision led to a diplomatic incident involving my birth country and my adopted one, an international abduction attempt commissioned by the (now former) Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, and […]

I am not a superstitious person. Far from it.In fact, I started self-identifying as atheist at the ripe old age of 17, despite living in a country that is as friendly to atheism as outer space is to swimming. I’ve never been big on any of the spiritual/religious stuff, but I do have something. Call […]

On May 5, 2024, I was in Ethiopia taking a city tour of the ancient outskirts of Addis Ababa. I was having a grand old time. Here are some pictures to prove it.I gave him a signed copy of my newest book. Very nice guy.Sometime during the day, in the course of exploring the palace […]

Donor funds from eccentric American billionaires and shadowy Western government institutions are funding African NGOs involved in political and economic sabotage on the continent.I explore why this is happening.Subscribe now

“Me and you no dey for the same category.”- Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, 1986)Subscribe now

What else can we say to the honorable Judge Nancy Maldonado and Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert except that, by embracing diligence and moral uprightness in their work, they have played an immense and unquantifiable role in the exposure of the putrefaction of the Nigerian state? For this, we owe them our profound gratitude. Much to […]

Thomas Akoh Etuh is a very rich man.He is the Chairman at Veritas Kapital Assurance Plc and Founder of the TAK group of companies,  a multibillion naira conglomerate spanning Agriculture, Logistics, Asset Management, Aviation and Mining. His portfolio includes TAK Continental Limited, TAK Asset Management, TAK Agro, TAK Aviation, Thomasses and Associates Limited (UK) and […]

CHAPTER 4Obenesu CrescentIt was March 2021 and I was back in Accra, fresh from my Ivorian adventure. Ndi and Ralph had fallen out over something extremely silly during the Christmas period, and were not speaking to each other at that point. When they wanted to find out how each other was doing, I would be […]