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I am Nigerian, and like many Nigerians of my generation, I did not grow up being taught to fully interrogate colonialism beyond a few paragraphs in a history textbook. It was often presented as a…
Russian President Vladmir Putin. [CREDIT: Twitter handle of the Russian government] If Trump believes that he can grab Greenland and plant the US flag in Nuuk, whether the people like it or not, because he was denied the Nobel Peace…
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the man who first formalised the idea of psychotherapy. Freud was a profound pessimist about human nature. He believed that life is governed by deep, dark drives that humans can only tenuously control.…
Recently, the Minister of Works, David Umahi, was out there inspecting a federal road construction project. After checking the state of work on the Abuja-Keffi Road, specifically, he expressed his displeasure regarding the condition he met it. Umahi didn’t say…
The pigeon and the chicken are not neighbours. It is the heavy rain that fell which made them strange bedfellows. The pigeon is the priest of the air, the chicken is the scratcher on land. Long before the first corn…
Terra Industries is protecting $11 billion in Nigerian assets with Nigerian ingenuity. That they had to go to Silicon Valley for funding isn’t a failure of Nigerian entrepreneurship or Nigerian venture capital. It’s a failure of a defence budgeting paradigm…
The conditions of the evicted residents of Makoko is both a Constitutional and Moral Matter. This level of displacement triggers an immediate duty of care by the state. Therefore, continued silence or delay by the Federal Government to protect and…
APC As Nigeria gradually turns its gaze toward 2027, the APC approaches the future not as a party scrambling for cohesion, but as a governing platform steadily expanding its influence. With defections reshaping the political landscape and opposition alliances struggling…
A majority of soldiers who retired from the Nigerian Army over 20 years ago are very unhappy these days. Their sadness has nothing to do with their modest monthly pension, which, though regular nowadays, can no longer pay half their…
The question is no longer whether Nigerian women are interested in power. The more honest question is whether Nigeria’s political architecture is genuinely prepared for women to exercise power without apology, patronage, or pity. The renewed campaign for increased women’s…
Today, I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics, where the large, main power, geopolitics, is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On…
Picture credit: XNY/Star Max/GC Images. The US approach to Venezuela is not an anomaly of Donald Trump’s presidency; it is consistent with decades of American foreign policy. Intervention, control over resources, and strategic influence have historically outweighed support for democracy…
Guinea’s presidential inauguration on January 17, 2026, marked a formal return to constitutional rule following the September 2021 military coup that dismantled the country’s democratic order. That ceremony did not conclude Guinea’s transition. Instead, it inaugurated a broader regional test:…
International Day of Education is celebrated every year globally, on January 24 since 2019. The day focuses on the importance of inclusive, quality and lifelong learning for all, to address barriers of poverty, gender inequality, and conflict. Nigerians know well…
In recent days, Nigerians have been inundated with reports suggesting that the Federal Government has introduced Value Added Tax on banking services such as electronic transfers, fees and commissions. Understandably, this has triggered anxiety among citizens already grappling with economic…
In the space of a few short weeks, two deeply painful stories have exposed with brutal clarity what many Nigerians have known in their bones for years: our healthcare system is groaning under the weight of sheer institutional neglect. In…
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