In Nigerian politics, perception often travels faster than facts. Few issues illustrate this better than the chorus of criticism surrounding President Bola Tinubu’s foreign trips. For months, critics have framed his diplomatic engagements as excessive travel, as political optics over…

No serious or fair-minded Nigerian expects President Bola Tinubu to reverse 57 years of national misrule in three years. That would be an unreasonable demand.  Nations do not heal overnight from decades of structural decay, military distortion, elite capture, and…

By the time you finish reading this article, the price of Bitcoin may have changed twice. That is the nature of cryptocurrency: fast, volatile, and borderless. Yet beyond price charts and trading apps lies a less discussed but critical pillar…

Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a 19th-century Russian writer and journalist who best described self-deception. In his drapery of wisdom and sapience in his last scripted work, “Brothers Karamazov”, Mikhaylovich wrote: “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to…

Yoruba elders rarely waste words. When they speak, they compress generations of experience into lines sharp enough to cut through confusion. One of such sayings goes: “Iku ti yoo pani b’o ba si ni, ni fila k’ama d’upe.” The death…

Ask what the foremost solution to the problems of any government institution is, and I will respond that it is the head of the agency. It is the head that houses the brain, the ears, as well as the eyes.…

Mali Disregard for democratic values that might have concerned the US in a former life is no longer an issue. In the current dispensation, if it’s not critical minerals – which the Sahelian states have in abundance – or the…

Over the past few weeks, I have been reflecting on Nigeria’s projected economic growth of over 3 per cent in 2025. I must assume I am not alone in this reflection. The projection has attracted increasing scrutiny, particularly because it…

President Tinubu and Sowore …for the last two years since he was sworn in as President, I have been unwavering in my support for him and have sought to defend him and his government vigorously. If I had any misgivings…

The painful killing of Mrs Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwaseun by Muslim extremist secondary school students in Gombe in 2007 was a tragic incident that deeply grieved me when it happened. Till today, I still wonder why the school authorities failed to…

Launched in Lagos on January 15, the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s first Military coup, “The Gun Hegemony”, the 428-page book by elder statesman, Ayo Opadokun, delivers a highly comprehensive, authoritative, multi-sourced and third-party narrative on the country’s martial institution. This…

Nigerian NGO leaders. Picture credit: TY Danjuma Foundation. For Nigerian NGOs that remain active into 2026 and continue to deliver impactful work despite funding constraints, this is a period of forced innovation, building new networks, leveraging new funders, and collective…

The 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos laid bare a truth that too often goes unspoken: the world’s economic architecture is fragmenting even as global challenges converge. The annual meeting shone a light on tensions that matter deeply to emerging…

Beyond the political exchanges lies the more important issue: the substance of the reforms. Nigeria’s economy has for decades suffered from weak revenue mobilisation, a narrow tax base, and inefficient administration. The new tax laws are intended to modernise the…

On October 18, 2025, the Sahara Reporters reported that some military officers ranging in rank from captain to brigadier general were arrested by the Defence Intelligence Agency for allegedly holding secret meetings to topple the government. The online news medium…