In every functioning democracy, power comes with a timer. It starts ticking the day an oath is taken, and it stops the day the law says it must. That timer is not symbolic, it is the foundation of electoral legitimacy.…

Picture credit: Emmanuel Ikwuegbu Ultimately, Nigeria’s path to inclusive and sustainable economic transformation will require a careful balance between global opportunities, domestic policy coherence, and proactive structural reforms, ensuring that both short-term adjustments and long-term strategic objectives are simultaneously addressed.…

There is every conceivable reason to celebrate and properly situate the emergence and functional relevance of the Federal Capital Territory Civil Service Commission in Nigeria’s administrative history, even if the significance of this is not obvious to anyone but an…

Nigeria stands at a defining crossroads. With a rapidly growing population, accelerating technological change, and mounting socio-economic pressures, the choices we make today in public policy will shape the nation’s future for decades to come. Amid debates over infrastructure, security,…

He is a man the opposition loves to deride, yet one who keeps his gaze firmly fixed on a singular goal: positioning Ogun State as Nigeria’s foremost investment destination. Long before now, Governor Dapo Abiodun had made his intentions clear.…

In Nigeria, energy is often discussed as a technical or policy problem, from megawatts generated and grids upgraded to fuels subsidised. Yet for most Nigerians, energy is not an abstract concept. It is something encountered daily: whether the street is…

Those who say that journalism is history (told) in a hurry, are probably alluding to the realisation that history provides more backgrounding, depth and perspective when reporting an event than the news media that tend to take what it identifies…

Oyo State government kickstarted a weeklong golden anniversary celebration of the Pacesetter State on Monday, January 26, 2026, at Ibadan, the state capital. I had the privilege of watching the live telecast of the opening ceremony on TV. For those…

Mr Aliko Dangote Mr Dangote’s education endowment aims to reduce barriers to tertiary education for Nigeria’s poor and vulnerable youth and to support girls’ education. Over the period 2026-2036, the scholarship programme aimed to reach 1,325,000 vulnerable students in public…

To state the truth, Africa was significantly nowhere at the World Economic Forum which took place this 19-23 January. You may say absent figuratively, sidelined more specifically, and that has been very much the pattern over the years. The World…

Rep. Ilhan Omar in a Press Conference ahead of the 2020 Primary Election. Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Somalia’s civil war cannot be understood outside the prism of the Cold War, which exacerbated local problems born of…

…as the National Assembly convenes today, Tuesday, 27th January, 2026, lawmakers must confront a stark reality: the window for the passage of this bill is thin. If it is to take effect in the 2027 general election cycle, it can…

On June 22, 2017, the Lagos High Court declared illegal and unconstitutional the series of brutal, government-ordered evictions that had left more than 30,000 Nigerians homeless. The presiding Judge, Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo (now retd) ruled that the rights of the…

Two things made Nigeria’s attendance at this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Summit very remarkable. One, it showed how the sequence of actions by Nigeria’s leader, President Bola Tinubu, undergirded his determination to pave a promising future for the country’s…

Nigeria enters 2026 confronted by a moral and constitutional crisis disguised as routine budgeting. It is a crisis that strikes at the heart of justice, peace, and the social contract between government and the governed. At its centre is a…