Gbolade Akinwale
Gbolade Akinwale is a Nigerian historian and writer dedicated to shedding light on the full range of the nation’s past. His work cuts across timelines and topics, exploring power, people, memory, resistance, identity, and everyday life. With a voice grounded in truth and clarity, he treats history not just as record, but as a tool for understanding, reclaiming, and reimagining Nigeria’s future.
Nigerian History
OPL 245 Bribery Affair (1998–2011).
OPL 245, one of Nigeria’s most controversial oil blocks, has been at the centre...
Democratic Nigeria
Shell–Ogoniland Repression Scandal.
For more than six decades, oil operations in Ogoniland, Rivers State, Nigeria, have stood...
Nigerian History
Salisu Buhari “Toronto Certificate” Scandal of 1999
The Salisu Buhari scandal of 1999 remains one of the defining political controversies in...