Whether he wins the presidency or not, Peter Obi has already changed the course of Nigerian politics for good.

When conventional tools of resistance have failed or been compromised, humor has been a weapon of last resort for the African subaltern.  

The contending scenarios as social order breaks down.

The outcome of party presidential primaries appears to signal the end of post-military elite political consensus. 

Horrendous killing of college sophomore highlights the country’s ethnoreligious fault line, but interdenominational rivalry in the south is of no less moment. All in all, reactions to the murder of Ms. Deborah Yakubu, a 200-level home economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, have exposed Nigeria’s deepest political fractures and lingering questions over citizenship, national identity, and secularity. On May 12, following disagreement over a WhatsApp voice note deemed to have been blasphemous against Islam and Prophet Muhammad, a mob comprising some of the twenty-two-year-old’s schoolmates brutally clubbed and stoned her to death, after which they proceeded to incinerate her body.