RANDOM MUSINGS

Monitoring spirits everywhere. Nigerians speak of being remotely monitored by some so-called village people. It doesn’t matter whether they are atheists or animists, Muslims or Christians. Deep in their soul, they bear a surreal burden of surveillance. Data Dives from Dataphyte is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and …

The lead-up to Nigeria’s 2023 general elections could have been less dramatic if the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, simply insisted that he could not remember the religion of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, just as he insisted he could not recollect the primary …

Given the heart-wrenching human rights records and cases of extra-judicial killings recorded under him, it’s debatable whether the late General Sani Abacha would end up in theists’ heaven. Many Nigerians who are victims of Abacha’s reign of terror would probably think of him now dwelling on the “other” side of …