People dream. And it’s all manner of dreams. Some dreams are sumptuously sweet. Some are sorrily sour. Like every young person, I, too, dreamed. Some of the dreams we dream may be lofty; others may be lousy. The lofty and…

These are anxious times in Oyo State. Across communities in Oriire Local Government Area, fear now travels faster than traffic and arrives long before dusk. The recent abduction of teachers and pupils along the Ahoro-Esiele and Yawota axis has shaken…

Of late, there has been a conversation among some African leaders about asserting independence from entities external to the continent. This was around the time a summit took place in May between France and African nations in Kenya. Political leaders…

Nigeria’s main political parties are in the thick of their primaries ahead of the 2027 general elections. That politicians can still manage to hold primaries in the midst of a worsening wave of horrendous attacks on communities and kidnappings in…

Some families are selling their ancestral farmland to pay million of naira ransoms. (Photo illustration: Ogalah Dunamis/Premium Times) Who profits from prolonged instability?Who benefits from endless emergency procurements? Who feeds the protection economy? Who launders the proceeds? Who keeps supplying…

Prof Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar. Professor Oloyede asked us to defer congratulations “till, if God wills, this assignment comes to a successful end.” It has. He met JAMB on a stretcher. The surgery held. The patient lived. He is leaving…

The distance between what Nigeria has promised its children and what it has delivered is not fate. It is a choice that gets made again every year, in every budget, in every enforcement gap, in every election where child welfare…

“There are two things you get out of being Nigerian,” he said. “You have the special skill to be adaptive and you have the special skill to be resilient.” There was something familiar about the laughter that filled the RF…

Recently, I argued that Nigeria’s recurring struggles with digital identity were not fundamentally technological failures. They are structural ones. We have attempted to solve identity before solving addressability. We have tried to authenticate persons in a national space, which we…

Youth entrepreneurs own 67 per cent of enterprises in Nigeria, according to ThisDay’s report of 2021. For millions of young Nigerians, entrepreneurship is no longer a matter of ambition or innovation; it is a response to necessity. In the absence…

General TY Danjuma Nigeria already knows you as a patriot, a builder, and a philanthropist. This is an opportunity to be remembered also as the leader who helped end some of the diseases that have burdened the country’s poorest citizens…

Every nation reaches a defining moment when reform moves beyond promise and becomes real, visible on the roads people travel, the hospitals they enter, and the infrastructure that powers their daily life. For Nigeria, that moment is no longer ahead.…

I write not merely as a concerned citizen, but as a Nigerian troubled by the growing assault on internal democracy within our political parties — an assault that threatens the very foundation of the democratic system upon which our nation…

Globally, citizens respond positively when leaders show up, listen, and follow through on commitments. The reason is that public trust is built not only through speeches by these leaders but also through visible action and responsiveness. That is the deeper…

Volatility is no longer an episodic challenge for corporate treasurers—it is the operating environment. Over the past few years, treasury has evolved more rapidly than at any point in recent history. Persistent market disruption, geopolitical uncertainty, inflationary pressures, and currency…