Nigeria welcomes Gavi’s US$500 million support as part of the shared effort to protect our children over the next five years. Within that period, we will continue to strengthen the domestic financing and institutional capacity needed to sustain immunisation beyond…

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu Nigeria has become remarkably good at celebrating what government can photograph. Roads, bridges, and public buildings offer visible evidence of activity; they can be commissioned, named, and displayed as proof of performance. Yet some of…

The Tinubu government was incensed. By what? The meeting, two weeks ago, between the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) and his government? Or by John Cardinal Olorunfemi Onaiyekan’s subsequent briefing of the media on the meeting’s proceedings? The government’s…

Nigeria’s 2026 Appropriation Act is decidedly a can of worms. This chilling reality seized national consciousness with the discovery in July of ₦1.3 billion allocated to a fake agency – the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council. A media report that…

His Emminence John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan. The overwhelming majority of social media commentators are in support of Cardinal Onaiyekan, which shows that he was, in fact, doing his country a good turn by speaking truth to power. There is a rich…

God provides the raw materials, but man must build the structure. God gives the seed, but man must till the ground, sow the seed, protect the field from pests, and harvest the crop. Passivity is an insult to the grace…

Election results management remains the most contested and consequential phase of Nigeria’s electoral process. It is the point at which votes cast by citizens are translated into electoral outcomes. It is here that the inconceivable becomes routine: results are altered,…

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun How we dress and address legal and judicial vocations in Nigeria is important. But even more important is whether we care to redress the lost mission and ethos of those institutions. Nigeria’s Chief Justice…

Now let me put down the little that comes to my head for now, in evidence of Nigeria’s unity, of the fact that we are one, and that our ancestors had great interaction among themselves, and respect for one another…

In the preceding articles, I have argued that the twenty-first-century newsroom must evolve into a knowledge-producing institution; situated that proposition within a broader intellectual tradition; introduced the Dual Engine Architecture through which journalism and knowledge production become mutually reinforcing; and…

Midnight was just shyly unfolding its grim loneliness over the Coal City.I nudged the nose of my blue Peugeot 504 Saloon out of my apartment’s driveway opposite the Fire Service Office. I then turned into the dark, quiet embrace of…

What Nigeria needs to curtail issues of mob justice is public safety that is people-centred: community policing that is genuinely local, accountable to the neighbourhoods it serves, and built on relationships. Community policing means officers who know the streets they…

The Bible reads us. I asked a question during a Bible Study, “What will happen to the great men of the earth?” Nobody answered. Then I said the great men are all in trouble. God is going to deal very…

President Bola Tinubu with President Cyril Ramaphosa on arrival at Tuynhuys, Cape Town for the 11th session of Nigeria South Africa Bi-National Commission. Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Cape Town, South Africa. The South African people, as hostile, violent, aggressive and…

Today, every unemployed or unemployable journalist wants to carry a ‘dignified’ title of being a publisher, hence the rash of poorly edited and managed online publications in the cyberspace. It has become a case of ‘read one and you’ve read…