“There are two things you get out of being Nigerian,” he said. “You have the special skill to be adaptive and you have the special skill to be resilient.” There was something familiar about the laughter that filled the RF…

Recently, I argued that Nigeria’s recurring struggles with digital identity were not fundamentally technological failures. They are structural ones. We have attempted to solve identity before solving addressability. We have tried to authenticate persons in a national space, which we…

Youth entrepreneurs own 67 per cent of enterprises in Nigeria, according to ThisDay’s report of 2021. For millions of young Nigerians, entrepreneurship is no longer a matter of ambition or innovation; it is a response to necessity. In the absence…

General TY Danjuma Nigeria already knows you as a patriot, a builder, and a philanthropist. This is an opportunity to be remembered also as the leader who helped end some of the diseases that have burdened the country’s poorest citizens…

Every nation reaches a defining moment when reform moves beyond promise and becomes real, visible on the roads people travel, the hospitals they enter, and the infrastructure that powers their daily life. For Nigeria, that moment is no longer ahead.…

I write not merely as a concerned citizen, but as a Nigerian troubled by the growing assault on internal democracy within our political parties — an assault that threatens the very foundation of the democratic system upon which our nation…

Globally, citizens respond positively when leaders show up, listen, and follow through on commitments. The reason is that public trust is built not only through speeches by these leaders but also through visible action and responsiveness. That is the deeper…

Volatility is no longer an episodic challenge for corporate treasurers—it is the operating environment. Over the past few years, treasury has evolved more rapidly than at any point in recent history. Persistent market disruption, geopolitical uncertainty, inflationary pressures, and currency…

There is something profoundly symbolic about workers discussing climate change in a country where millions still struggle daily with electricity shortages, unemployment, inflation and collapsing infrastructure. For years, climate negotiations sounded like elite environmental conversations held in distant cities among…

Goodluck Jonathan is running.  Or he isn’t. Nobody knows. Including, it seems, the Peoples Democratic Party. Since January 2026, party elders have courted him. Waivers signed. Screening done. By May, a PDP faction named him the sole aspirant for 2027.…

Nigeria’s spending of less than ₦500 per child per day investment is not a minor budget line. It captures a deeper contradiction between long-term growth ambition and underinvestment in the foundation of that growth. The consequence is not immediate collapse,…

Across the developing world, and particularly in Africa, conversations about national development often revolve around the absence of infrastructure, lack of funding, weak institutions, corruption, insecurity, or foreign interference. These are undoubtedly real and significant challenges. Yet beneath all these…

When the Electoral Act 2026 was passed into law in February 2026, the expectation was that it would be the deus ex machina (the fool-proof, mechanical, solution as in complex Greek tragedies of old) to Nigeria’s electoral problems since the return to…

American President Abraham Lincoln tried to simplify democracy as the “Government of the people, by the people and for the people.” With this, he meant that rather than have (what medieval Europe described as) divine, chosen kings, citizens chose their…

Wikipedia says, “A political family (also referred to as a political dynasty) is a family in which multiple members are involved in politics, particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage; often, several generations or multiple siblings…