Dear compatriots, We have come to the end of 2025, a truly defining year marked with far-reaching reforms that crisscrossed nearly all strategic sectors of our economy. The Senate, indeed, the National Assembly, has collaborated with other arms of government…

The range of forecasts shows how unpredictable Nigeria’s FX trajectory can be — and how crucial reforms, liquidity, and investor confidence are. The analysts who accurately incorporated these dynamics got it right. Others, whether overly bearish or unrealistically bullish, missed…

The defining test of leadership in 2026 will not be whether executives recognise risk. Most serious organisations already do. Risk registers are full, dashboards are sophisticated, and committees meet regularly. The real test will be whether leaders have moved beyond…

I sat at a table of eight, oddly sitting in the midst of gorgeously looking heavyweight PUNCHers in their different traditional signatures. It was The PUNCH staff party to celebrate old and existing staff on the occasion of PUNCH 50th…

Nigerians, like the rest of humanity, embraced the New Year, 2026, with the usual exhilaration. Midnight fireworks were on display and ‘Happy New Year’ felicitations to relations and friends went viral. In churches, prayers were offered to God for guiding…

Mr Peter Obi’s year-end speech to mark his membership of the African Democratic Congress is one of the best and greatest efforts at leadership preparation any Nigerian has made. It quickly reminds one of late Chief Awolowo, who, arguably, was…

Quite early in life, I picked up the intellectual habit of probing the intellects of great thinkers, and there are a whole tribe of them that I came into contact with right from my secondary to undergraduate and postgraduate days:…

All humanity belongs either to the first Adam or to the last Adam. Sometime in 2016, I received a phone call from a representative of the Igbo community in Lagos. He said they were having a general meeting and had…

By any serious measure of development, the strength of a nation is inseparable from the strength of its institutions. Institutions – public, private, and civic – shape incentives, enforce rules, and determine whether policies translate into real outcomes. In Nigeria,…

President Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela. The best option for all is for the US to return Maduro and his wife with apologies and pay compensation for the lives taken and damages caused. But peace is not in the DNA of…

As political conversations gradually shift towards the 2027 governorship election in Oyo State, familiar arguments have once again resurfaced. Chief among such issues of contention is the subtle, but persistent attempt to frame succession through the prism of religion. While…

I pray that the new year, 2026, unfolds with fresh opportunities, meaningful growth, and endless possibilities. Amid the many emerging topical issues, this piece focuses on a troubling trend in academia: the growing reliance on predatory publications and the declining…

Nigeria enters 2026 not with swagger but with the limp of survival. The past year felt like a rickety ride: pistons rattled, warning lights fluttered, and the driver kept insisting the vehicle was “fine”. Democracy’s engine spent 2025 in a mechanic’s workshop –…

Like individuals make New Year resolutions at the beginning of a new year, President Bola Tinubu did the same last Thursday, at the start of 2026. He pledged that the Federal Government would pursue policies to further a strong economic…

When vindictiveness, vendetta and prejudice take hold, injustice can look like justice. That is the core problem with sustained narratives around contested claims that are repeated so often and eventually presented as settled fact. At the heart of the mischief-driven…