Conversations on how we actually live: law, money, and the systems that shape everyday Nigerian and African life. Grounded in what a standing panel tells us, hosted by Inskriba.
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Bola Tinubu became president of 230 million Nigerians with 8.8 million votes. Out of 93 million registered, fewer than one in ten chose the winner. Sifon Bassey, Inskriba editor and researcher, spent a research paper asking how the minority came to decide for the majority, and Jii walks through what he found. Turnout fell from 43.7 percent in 2015 to 26.7 percent in 2023, the worst in our history, and Sifon's uncomfortable conclusion is that the real numbers were always this low; the technology just stopped inflating them. They get into why the insecure North still turns out while the calmer S
You are, as Dr. Nana puts it, one medical emergency away from bankruptcy in Nigeria. Jii sits with Dr. Nana Abadri, a doctor who began her housemanship the same week the country locked down, to look at the system most of us only meet when something has already gone wrong. They move from clinics and teaching hospitals to the quiet belief that going to hospital means not coming back; from malaria that kills because treatment started too late to why we minimise our own symptoms until we cannot. Underneath it sits the question that runs through this show: who can actually afford to be well? No dru
Money is freedom, and it is also the first thing that made a five-year-old spend his uncle's gift on sweets and keep the change quiet. Jii sits with Sheriff, a self-described financial enthusiast (his word, not "guru"), to ask a plain question: what does money actually mean to us, and how does it move through Nigerian life? They trace it from childhood piggy-banks and stolen savings to crypto, betting, and the stock market; from inflation quietly eating what we earn to the wild ways politicians, and Lagos itself, spend. This is not financial advice and never will be. It is financial understand
Are lawyers liars? Jii opens the very first episode of How We Live by putting that old accusation to Kolade Adegbola, Esquire, and the answer turns out to be more interesting than yes or no. From there: what the law actually is (Kolade calls it "a means of setting human interactions right"), why so many Nigerians only reach for it in a fight, and how most of us underuse the one thing quietly protecting almost everything we own. Along the way, why he stumbled into law while wanting to be a journalist, what law school in Lagos does to a person, and the difference between a Barrister and an Esqui
