The Concerned Citizens have performed an important service by drawing attention to Nigeria’s deteriorating condition. Their diagnosis identifies many real problems. But their recommendations remain trapped within the framework that produced those problems. Our attention has been drawn to a…

Part I of this essay examined developments at the frontline of healthcare delivery, particularly in primary healthcare and maternal health. Those areas matter because they are where citizens most directly experience the strengths and weaknesses of the health system. They…

“World Elder Abuse Awareness Day” is observed every year on 15 June. It is the only United Nations Day dedicated to exposing the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older people, a crisis that remains largely hidden, even as it affects…

My vote will go to the candidate who commits to delivering at least 70 per cent of the following blueprint reform within a strict five-year tenure. This agenda features critical actions that require zero new funding, but only requires a…

For decades, access to consumer credit has been largely restricted to salaried workers and high-income earners, while most Nigerians have depended on personal savings, family support, cooperative societies, and informal lenders to meet household and business needs. Beyond economics, Nigeria…

In an era when politics is loud, His Excellency, Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State, chose a different sound, the sound of work getting done. He governs with calm. No drama. No chest beating. Just steady, deliberate steps that are…

The death of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar in kidnappers’ custody should trouble the conscience of the nation. Nigeria has, regrettably, become accustomed to tragic headlines. Reports of terrorist attacks on communities, banditry on highways, farmers abandoning their farmlands, and…

I believe you understand the question. It echoes the problem many have with the indicated idiom and some other ones. Based on how common some idiom-related mistakes are, we shall revisit the topic today. Meanwhile, I should quickly note: I…

Of course, I didn’t have an idea what it meant, but it was always there at the top of our chalkboard at the Baptist Primary School, Oke Ako Ekiti, my primary school. The one-line sentence simply read: “Apartheid is a…

Babatunde Raji Fashola is one of the few Nigerian political leaders who still command respect across party lines. Even many of his critics acknowledge his intellect, competence, and ability to engage public issues thoughtfully. Given how highly I have rated…

Svitlana. Svitlana’s account of life under Russian occupation and education in a Russian school reflects what members of TRP’s legal team describe as “indoctrination”: a non-legal term encompassing multiple concurrent human rights violations, including infringements on the rights to education,…

There is a disease worse than inflation in Nigeria. It’s not corruption. They’re not bad roads. It’s our national addiction to excuses. Every day, the country bleeds. Fuel prices climb. Schools crumble. Hospitals beg for light. And what do we…

Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can no longer disguise decay, when restraint begins to look like indifference, and when good people must decide whether comfort matters…

Few questions in Nigerian land litigation recur with the persistence of this one: when does the State actually own what it says it has acquired, and what becomes of the citizen whose title predates the acquisition but who was never…

It’s almost uncanny that when I get thinking about an issue around the economy lately, events conspire to push such matters to the front burner of public discourse. This time, it is about the matter of investment. Nairametrics’ take on…