The neighbours’ ‘debt’ is a residual service charge on a trade that Nigeria disciplined and guaranteed back in 2019. The real opportunity is to scale the commercial model that already works. Every few months, the same headline returns: Benin, Togo…

The irony is plain. The Bible has often been accused of placing the blame for humanity’s fall upon a woman. Read closely, Scripture proves more exacting than many of its interpreters. It neither shields women from blame where blame belongs…

There are dots in every destiny that only God understands and can connect. Your life and my life are not ones that can be explained from A–Z. Destiny is not linear. Dr Tony Evans once said, “You can be walking…

From listening to the ideologues of the Trump administration go on about how unfair America’s place in the world is today, you would be forgiven for thinking up an image of a United States of America that is plagued on…

Political rallies are often dismissed as spectacles that bear little relationship to election outcomes. History has shown that large crowds do not necessarily translate into votes, just as modest gatherings do not always signal electoral weakness. Yet, there are moments…

Markets do not require perfect governments; they require credible institutions. The Presidency’s handling of allegations surrounding a so-called “ghost agency” – the Presidential Economic Advisory Council – and its self-styled Director-General, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, now risks undermining that credibility.…

After 53 years of its existence, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is to undergo a raft of operational, administrative and identity reforms, with the decision taken at the Federal Executive Council meeting last Monday. In a statement he personally…

Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi and Femi Gbajabiamila Thanks to scientific advancement in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing, it is now possible to determine a child’s paternity with a 99.99 per cent certainty. In the light of recent events that…

The Chief of Staff to the President , Femi Gbajabiamila (PHOTO CREDIT: @femigbaja) The late Chief Joseph Folahan (JF) Odunjo left behind an allegory that perfectly mirrors today’s most notorious national scandal. It explains the infamy surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of…

Sadly we did not spend much time together in the last few years and were only in touch from time to time but when I heard of your passing something broke in me… I realised that you were literally the…

But the real question we should be asking is whether the world could and should actually retain some inefficiencies, rather than the relentless pursuit of efficiency and more efficiency that may tip the scale and lead us all into confusion.…

Following the completion of The Three-Month Sprint series, our editorial roadmap dictated a sharp turn into a four-part methodology series exploring the inner workings of the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI). That exploration will still come. However, the remarkable public interest…

As I join millions around the world to congratulate the US on its 250th Independence Day, I pray humanity can develop some engineering that can alter its DNA and transform it into a force of peace and development in the…

Counselling is a strong part of correcting and transforming youth behaviour. Picture credit: KIR Foundation. The events in Ondo State should therefore serve less as a moment of outrage and more as a call for reflection on how children are…

For many Nigerians living abroad, renewing a Nigerian passport was once a task dreaded almost as much as losing the passport itself. It was a process associated with long waits, expensive journeys, uncertainty and frustration. Many accepted it as one…