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With all of these swirling around, I didn’t know what to expect on this trip, and more than once I toyed with cancelling it. America didn’t quite look like the place it used to be,…
The 2025 REX Index of Industrial Development in Africa, released recently by Business Council for Africa, affirmed that Nigeria is not one of the African countries with structural conditions for industrialisation. According to The PUNCH report, Egypt, Mauritius, Morocco, and…
Litigants in cases involving party political interests have for long been used to judgment without justice. The phenomenon of verdict without judgment is new, however, because the absence of judgment is itself injustice and the vacuum in time until it…
Tosin Eniolorunda The comment may have been controversial, but perhaps its biggest impact was forcing a conversation many people had avoided publicly for too long. Beneath the outrage lies a more uncomfortable reflection about direction. Nigeria’s real test is not…
Julius Malema. (PHOTO CREDIT: The Times/Alon Skuy). Malema is the only political leader who is unequivocal in his condemnation of Afrophobia. Our great friend and collaborator in the anti-apartheid struggle, Thabo Mbeki, whose sojourn in Nigeria during the liberation struggle…
William Shakespeare, in Othello, warned of the destructive power of envy and manipulation when he wrote: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” Across history, enemies have often…
Godly mothers operate on the wings of the Spirit. They are intercessors, wells of wisdom, and pillars of strength within their families. They impart courage, direction, and spiritual stability. Though increasingly rare in our generation, they still exist, quietly shaping…
Citizens across the federation have witnessed enough recycled tactics to recognise when political manoeuvring prioritises short-term expediency over genuine nation building. The notion of restricting a presidential ticket to a single region for just one term flies in the face…
God became a man that man might be made holy. The more I know God, the more I recognise how little I know Him. The more I know Him, the less I know Him.< Have you met Mr. Adewale?Yes.Do you…
African Development Bank So, how can the AfDB help Africa’s green industrialisation? First, overcoming perceived high-risk barriers that limit private capital requires strategic de-risking, achieved through institutional alchemy and targeted financial structuring. To create an enabling environment, there is a…
I was informed about the division and disintegration of the Senator David Mark-led faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the increasingly acrimonious divorce proceedings that are taking place between the Atikulators, within their ranks on the one hand,…
The Trinity of State Decay is the decoupling of a state into rival sovereignties: the Institutional Mirage, which performs authority without fully possessing it, and the Shadow Order — or competing Shadow Orders — which exercises de facto authority in…
There is an old English proverb that says, “What is good for the goose is good for the gander.” It is a short adage that has become the conscience of every parent with two or more children, every supervisor with…
Perhaps. We have heard from Senate President Godswill Akpabio many times, sometimes in strange ways, including embarrassment, such as when he could not pronounce a number he had written down and brought into the chamber. There have been gaffes of…
On Thursday, I crested the hill of 59. In the quiet geometry of middle age, one ceases to merely scan the horizon for personal gain and begins, instead, to study the shadows cast by the trees we planted – or…
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