For her commentary on Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2023, Astha Rajvanshi, Time’s staff writer has locked her Twitter account because of heavy criticisms from Nigerians. Tinubu was listed among Time’s 100 most influential people of 2023 on Thursday. He made the “leaders” category alongside Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine; Joe Biden, President of the United States; Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, among others....

The Nigerian Twitter space is agog as #TinubuTheDrugDealer trends following the publication of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu’s drug trafficking case by UberFacts. UberFacts, an online outlet that publishes random facts, on Monday, informed its 13.5 million followers on Twitter about Tinubu’s legal woes with the United States government in 1993 which made him forfeit $460,000 ill-gotten gains from heroin trafficking. In 1993, Bola Ahmed Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the US government after a Chicago court...

Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on the morning of February 25, the day of the Nigerian presidential election. Many Nigerians went out to vote holding in their hearts a new sense of trust. Cautious trust, but still trust. Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerians have had little confidence in elections. To vote in a presidential election was to brace yourself for the inevitable aftermath: fraud. Elections would be rigged because elections...