The African continent, long a theatre of political experimentation and turbulence, has in recent years witnessed a dramatic resurgence of military interventions in governance. Since 2020, at least nine states across West and Central Africa have succumbed to coups d’état…

When I read that the Federal Government is pushing for N17.89tn fresh loans to finance the 2026 budget, I wondered what happened to the loans that were contracted and received for the unimplemented 2025 budget. The loans include the oversubscribed…

Globally, 38 per cent of women say they have experienced online abuse, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. Nigeria exceeds that average: Gatefield data shows that women make up 58 per cent of documented online harms. And yet, policymakers still…

…regulators like NITDA must evolve beyond promoting innovation. They must defend Nigeria’s information sovereignty. Because if Google can destabilise the UK’s news economy with a quiet “experiment,” what prevents it from doing the same in Nigeria — where media organisations…

Time and seasons have their indicators. My people have many of such indicators. For instance, when elders gather to feast on the intestines, the entrails of an Òkété, known as the African giant pouched rat, that community is at its…

Only the joyful and the thankful go to heaven. When Jesus healed the crowd, He only healed their bodies. The healing did not require them to believe in Him. As a result, they were healed in the body but not…

I wasn’t a fan of Traore or any of the other two Sahelian heads of state until France came into the picture. France has always been the same old, ugly-faced monster masked as a helper, one that is behind most…

The combined effect of pervasive inequities is the erosion of Nigeria’s capacity for long-term economic planning at both household and national levels. When health, education, and basic infrastructure are unreliable, individuals focus on immediate survival rather than on savings, entrepreneurship,…

On 31 October 2025, the United States formally designated Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern,” a move that has reverberated across national and diplomatic spaces. For millions of Nigerians, the announcement was both troubling and deeply unfair, especially because elements…

Recently, in our home, I was checking one of our aloe vera pots when I noticed that Phyllanthus amarus, known as stone breaker, was growing in it! It then dawned on me that when we had our series titled, ‘Nigeria’s…

Reflux disease is common in children, and many of the complaints mothers make about their babies vomiting often fit a pattern of gastroesophageal reflux rather than vomiting linked to an underlying disease. In most cases, when the child is carefully…

General Horta Inta-A of Guinea Bissau For ECOWAS, the challenge is clear: it must persist in applying diplomatic pressure on the coup leaders to restore constitutional order. Military force alone is insufficient; what is needed is a sustained diplomatic strategy…

President Donald Trump Few figures in modern American history embody contradiction as vividly and publicly as Donald J. Trump. To some, he is a liberator, an unapologetic disruptor who says out loud what many only whispers, a figure who challenges…

Nigeria’s swift and successful response to the call for help by the elected government in Benin has not only shored up Nigeria’s image, but it has also sent a strong signal across and beyond the region that Nigeria is not…

Early morning Sunday, 7 December, while many Beninois slept, hoping to go to church, mosque and traditional places of worship at dawn, some members of their armed forces fanned out. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paschal Tigri, they planned to bring…