…we propose the urgent convening of a Yoruba Security and Civic Renewal Summit, to bring together governors, traditional rulers, legislators, security practitioners, academics, labour leaders, business executives, youth organisations, women’s groups, and representatives of civil society. The purpose of such…

Development does not begin with money alone. It begins with the allocation of authority and responsibility. Authority creates the space for action. Incentives shape the behaviour of those entrusted with that authority. Sustained and purposeful action builds capabilities. Those capabilities…

…ECOWAS reiterated its promise to reduce the airfares amongst its member states. But I wonder why the emphasis as regards regional transportation is not on building railways across the region and a coastal transport system, since eleven of the ECOWAS…

I can understand when some  Africans argue that March and March (M&M) leaders like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Andile Somgxada, Sandile Dube, should never be forgiven, and must be punished, for the pains, loss and violence they inflict on other Black people.…

What the Senate owes the public now is a reconciliation conducted on the record, following the documents wherever they lead, insulated from political pressure in either direction, and concluded with a finding ordinary citizens can read. The analyst, Ike Onwuachu,…

Indeed, few figures in Nigeria’s politics have cut through the noise quite like Senator Adeola, who epitomises industrial grit and now stands as a quiet model of renewal. What makes Adeola remarkable is not the flash of his campaigns or…

For me, it was the Margaret Ekpo Refectory. My heart simply folded into itself. In that moment, I felt the kind of grief a son knows, standing before the ruins of his father’s house, burdened by the quiet shame of…

In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. Praise be to Allah, who made His religion manifest among the worlds, made firm the hearts of His believing allies, and saved them from the plots of the wrongdoing…

Former British PM Keir Starmer and new PM Andy Burnham. With a drastic decline in public trust of politicians and public institutions, it’s not surprising that Starmer’s landslide fizzled before he could fully milk it. The palace coup that forced…

Freed Oyo pupils and their teacher For many years since the rise of culturally motivated banditry and Islamist inspired terrorism in northern Nigeria, the region and its elite have blamed everything and everyone but the main culprits for the widespread…

The photographs, selected for the book, out of hundreds of others, are memory-laden and significant. Enfolded pages and spreads of high-resolution pictures, spiced with inspiring quotes from Rudyard Kipling, Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson and James Buchanan, add to its beauty. The…

ANC by failing to implement Paragraphs “4”, “5”, “8”, and “9” of its “Freedom Charter”, by submitting to White monopoly capitalism, by refusing to decolonise the economy and society, and by pointing fingers at African immigrants as the cause of…

We live in an age of the camera. The camera as reporter captures the serious and the mundane, the beauty and the beast, the decent and the pornographic. Those who intuitively and consciously understand the visual language, aesthetics and logic…

After over ten years of listening, one thing became increasingly clear: psychological distress in Nigeria rarely exists in isolation. It is deeply intertwined with economic uncertainty, caregiving responsibilities, insecurity, unemployment, family conflict and the daily pressures of survival. Trigger Warning:…

One year after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the tax reform laws, the direction is unmistakable. Nigeria is steadily moving away from an economy that depends largely on crude oil towards one that is driven by sustainable domestic revenue. President…