Nigeria, May 3 -- For our every-last-Saturday-of-the-month "Diaspora Dialogues" podcast on April 26 on the topic "Kyari Out, Ojulari In: Politics and Corruption in NNPC," my colleagues-Dr. Osmund Agbo in Houston, Texas, and Professor Moses Ochonu in Nashville, Tennessee-and I invited revered oil industry expert Mr. Dan Kunle as our guest.

He helped us (and the thousands of people who watched our show) to navigate the complex contours of the politics, operational uniqueness, financial indiscretions, and enduring transparency deficit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC).

But during the show, we noticed an unusually disproportionate, seemingly synchronized, and obviously induced volume of comments both in Zoom and on m...