Inskriba Conversations: How We Live

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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.

Episodes

  1. Sep 4

    The Act No One Read

    Most of us think an election ends on election day. For a lawyer, Kolade Adegbola reminds us, it ends at the Supreme Court. Ahead of 2027, Nigeria has a brand new Electoral Act, and almost no one has read it. So Kolade did, and walks Jii through what actually changed. The funding INEC gets to run the entire country, cut from twelve months to six. NIN added as valid voter ID. A voter's card you can now download and print, convenient, and quietly exploitable. Candidate lists that can stay secret until two months before you vote. On each one, the same question: real improvement, or an act written so the election favours whoever wrote it? No legal advice, just an attempt to know the rules before they are used on us. Read Kolade's essay at inskriba.com. How We Live is an Inskriba production. In this episode: 0:00 Meet Kolade Adegbola 2:03 Why read an Act no one reads 5:17 For a lawyer, elections end at the Supreme Court 10:11 INEC funding, cut from twelve months to six 19:09 NIN added as voter ID 29:58 The downloadable voter’s card 37:39 When parties must name their candidates 45:42 Publishing the candidate list, two months out 48:01 How an Electoral Act actually gets made 1:00:38 Campaign spending limits, doubled 1:07:52 Penalties no one expects enforced 1:13:48 Electronic transmission and its loophole 1:18:13 Form EC8A and the single point of failure 1:23:26 Primaries: consensus or direct, delegates out 1:28:25 Reform, or a new kind of problem?

  2. Aug 29

    The Minority Decides

    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 South stays home, the difference between not being able to vote and not bothering to, and why we may be the first generation building a voting culture to hand our children. Projections for 2027 included. Read the research and the panel data at inskriba.com. How We Live is an Inskriba production. In this episode: 0:00 Meet Sifon Bassey 3:16 The paper: declining participation 6:59 What voting actually means in Nigeria 9:00 The minority deciding for the majority 13:57 Apathy, not disenfranchisement 15:04 One voter, three elections 18:23 Why the real numbers are only now visible 20:51 Is turnout a cultural problem? 26:30 From ballot-snatching to vote-buying 29:39 The 2027 projection 31:36 Who is registering: youth and women 36:23 Logistics and INEC 39:26 Seventy-six percent still believe 46:49 Recommendations

  3. Aug 22

    One Emergency Away

    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 drug, diagnosis, or prescription is offered here. It is a conversation about how we live with our health. How We Live is an Inskriba production. The conversation continues in writing at inskriba.com.

  4. Aug 15

    Money Is Freedom

    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 understanding: the system of money, as it touches us. How We Live is an Inskriba production. The conversation continues in writing at inskriba.com.

  5. Aug 8

    Are Lawyers Liars?

    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 Esquire that the Supreme Court has actually ruled on. This is not legal advice. It is an attempt to understand the law as it touches ordinary Nigerian life. How We Live is an Inskriba production. The conversation continues in writing at inskriba.com.

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