Picture credit: Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on Unsplash Nigeria’s democracy can be rescued, but not by those who feed off its chaos. Reform requires courage, cooperation, and vision beyond party lines. It demands that IPAC and other political leaders look beyond self-interest…

We are indeed losing precious lives, but we are losing them to terrorism, banditry, and communal conflicts fuelled by poor governance, not a coherent government-backed campaign to wipe out one religion. The tragic irony is that the purveyors of this…

Education – formal, informal, vocational, and professional – has always been central to a nation’s capacity to evolve structurally from a low-skilled economy to an advanced one. Achieving this transformation requires a coherent, policy-driven process anchored on long-term national objectives,…

I have chosen the provocative title of this piece deliberately knowing that some of the more patriotic elements among us in Nigeria would scream that it is impossible, because Nigeria is a sovereign nation. Indeed, since the end of World…

President Tinubu with the new Service Chiefs. From left: Chief of Defence Intelligence, Major General Emmanuel Undiandeye; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sunday Aneke; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Idi Abbas; Chief of Army Staff, Major General…

I write today not merely as a minister, but as one appointed by the Lord to speak once more to the conscience of the Church, particularly its leadership. The silence of our elders in the face of evil is no…

Public activism is often dismissed as noise — hashtags that flare and fade, marches that make the evening news and then dissolve. But when citizens stay with the work beyond the first spark, activism becomes a disciplined insistence that power…

President Bola Tinubu and President Donald Trump The US designation should serve neither as vindication nor verdict, but as a stark wake-up call – not just for the Nigerian government, but for all Nigerians. It underscores what many have known…

What then to make of the consensus that culture eats strategy for breakfast all the time? A corporate culture whose focal points and the conventions that arise on the back of these are ossified, is dead. It may remind its…

President Bola Tinubu and Wike (PHOTO CREDIT: Tinubu’s Twitter handle) Tinubu’s respect for Wike is not deep. Not much deeper than that for MC Oluomo. Perhaps Tinubu needs Wike for another two years. Tinubu’s focus is electoral conquest. So, he…

Increasingly, doctrines of judicial independence serve only one purpose: to render the judges independent of accountability for breaching it. The value of judicial independence, rather ironically, now lies in the absence of accountability for publicly flouting it. Among the doctrines…

Nigeria is a country with two distinct legal systems, whether we admit it or not. That is the only way to describe the country, given that some people insist that everything, including the constitution, be subordinated to their religion. To…

A report early this month from the Military High Command that 16 officers were arrested over issues of indiscipline and breach of service regulations is not as trivial or innocuous as it was made to appear. The said officers are…

Late Professor Aituaje Irene Pogoson Professor Aituaje Pogoson’s presence, generosity, patience, encouragement, mentorship, wisdom and insights through the years were transformative for me, as for countless many peers of mine. She constantly expanded the breadth and depth of what being…

President Donald Trump Trump’s outburst exposes more than his ignorance of Africa. It reveals how easily American domestic politics can be weaponised to distort African realities. The real victims of that distortion are not in Washington’s think-tanks or on cable…