The ultimate measure of this intervention will not be the number of ghost workers removed or the amount of money recovered. It will be whether Nigeria has the courage to follow the trail to its source, hold those responsible accountable…

Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM) The Nigerian Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police Force and the country’s intelligence agencies comprise thousands of dedicated officers and men who continue to confront terrorism, insurgency, banditry and organised crime under extremely…

I approach national security and intelligence operations with deliberate caution. Revealing successes too early can compromise ongoing missions; failures narrated without context can sound like conspiracy theories. Allegations against individuals working at the sensitive intersection of intelligence, non-kinetic security strategy,…

All of this leads to the one question that accompanied me through every page of the report: Is Nigeria’s economy now growing faster because the reforms put in place by the incumbent federal government have removed the macroeconomic constraints on…

Against the backdrop provided by the incumbent government’s professed ambitions for the country, the 4.43 per cent by which the economy grew on an annualised basis in the second quarter of this year is far from the kind of high-productivity…

It is tempting to say that the debate over fuel subsidy is back to the fore of public conversation, again. Much thanks is owed for this to former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku…

Ambassador Lilian Onoh Lilian’s story is a three-decade long reel of the kind of interminable coincidence that is not unusual in Nigerian public life. In 1983, the civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari recruited over 300 new officers into Nigeria’s…

President Bola Tinubu When pounded yam has lumps, you re-pound the yam to achieve the required consistency. Away from all the contrived obfuscations of contemporary economic analysis, we ought to be able to honestly re-evaluate where we are as a…

“When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel” (Judges 2:10). History is full of transitions. Civilisations evolve. Technologies…

In 1969, legendary Yoruba Sakara music lord, Yusuff Olatunji, serenaded and celebrated the sterling qualities of the Seriki of Egbaland, Chief Abdul-Wahab Amódemájá, who held an Egba high-ranking military-derived civil title. In his Volume 3 album entitled Amódemájá, using a twin…

I have struggled with the inconceivability of writing about Dotun Oladipo in the past tense. Even now, the words do not sit comfortably with me. My mind keeps returning to the Dotun who was still here — sending his bulletin,…

Ajadi ends where he began, facing forward. “Afrilition”, he writes, is the light towards a twenty first century African civilisation, a platform for intergenerational awakening. That the African world is ready to express itself fully and to define tomorrow in…

The Tinubu administration owes Nigerians an answer. Until it provides one that withstands scrutiny, Nigerians are entitled to question whether what is being presented as an anti-corruption operation has become entangled with the politics of political survival. There comes a…

My prayer for my mentor, leader and friend is that the God whom he has served so faithfully will grant him many more years in good health and strength; that the wisdom accumulated over seven decades will continue to benefit…

World celebrated country music icon, the late Dolly Parton. [PHOTO CREDIT: Official X handle of Dolly Parton]It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and…