…the lessons of 2025 indicate that AI’s impact in 2026 will depend not on deployment speed, but on governance readiness — including data quality, interoperability, accountability, and safeguards for trust. These emerging trends, and the choices governments face as AI…

Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s immediate past Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, spent the Christmas and New Year festivities behind bars. If you are keeping score, this means that by the time his bail application is heard by the Federal High Court…

Stephen Hawking Leaving the fate of humans to humans seems dangerous, given that we created the atomic bomb, countless wars, the Holocaust and several genocides. We have created religious fundamentalism and pandemics. However, we have also created the most sublime…

May you have a prosperous New Year. May the New Year bless you with health, wealth and happiness. What have we not talked about in our quest to live a healthy lifestyle on this platform? There is almost nothing that…

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Praise be to Allah, who has honoured the Muslim believers with servitude to Him alone and submission to Him, and has bound their hearts with the bond of allegiance…

Nigeria’s political class does not take weddings lightly. While the couples getting married may see their wedding ceremony as their big day, it also serves as the proverbial golf course where political deals are struck, issues are discussed and, well,…

Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. Bourdillon Road tells a simple but instructive story: when infrastructure is asked to do more than it was designed for, the consequences appear first as everyday inconvenience — and later as systemic vulnerability… It also raises…

Childhood immunisations play a critical role in helping children survive and thrive. Vaccines have helped protect children and adolescents from serious, often fatal, illnesses over the last eight decades. There is no evidence anywhere that their widespread deployment to protect…

“Personal success will not insulate you from the failures of your society.” – Author unknown For many Africans in the diaspora, there is a quiet but enduring dream that our children will not grow up as strangers to the land…

That punctilious strike by the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) marked a turning point in Nigeria’s anti-terror war. Many Nigerian soldiers who had been complaining of internal sabotage, official complicity, deliberate under-provision of armaments and logistics, can now cheer up. The…

The immediate implications of the federal government’s new tax reforms have been widely discussed since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the four (4) Tax Reform Bills into law on 26 June. The provenance of some of the new legislation has…

“A Judge who takes advantage of the judicial office for personal gain or for gain by his or her relative or relation abuses power…. such abuse of power profoundly violates the public’s trust in the judiciary.” – Code of Conduct for…

A post on X meant to question Seyi Makinde’s personal history has instead placed the Oyo State governor at the centre of a debate about how money is made, how politics is funded, who truly stands independent of the state…

When Air Peace Chairman and CEO, Allen Onyema, recently appeared on Arise TV and declared that “Nigerians are paying the cheapest domestic air fares in the world… a one-hour flight costs over $400 abroad, but in Nigeria, we still have…

I do not write as a stranger to faith, nor as a cynic peering from the margins. My late maternal grandmother, a revered Iya Suna in Ota, raised me within the discipline of Islāmiyya. My first prayers were uttered in Arabic…