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SSS DG Oluwatosin Ajayi As the SSS continues to adapt under its current leadership, and as the judiciary continues to adjudicate complex security cases, Nigeria has an opportunity to deepen a culture in which justice…
Nigerians, like the rest of humanity, embraced the New Year, 2026, with the usual exhilaration. Midnight fireworks were on display and ‘Happy New Year’ felicitations to relations and friends went viral. In churches, prayers were offered to God for guiding…
Mr Peter Obi’s year-end speech to mark his membership of the African Democratic Congress is one of the best and greatest efforts at leadership preparation any Nigerian has made. It quickly reminds one of late Chief Awolowo, who, arguably, was…
Quite early in life, I picked up the intellectual habit of probing the intellects of great thinkers, and there are a whole tribe of them that I came into contact with right from my secondary to undergraduate and postgraduate days:…
All humanity belongs either to the first Adam or to the last Adam. Sometime in 2016, I received a phone call from a representative of the Igbo community in Lagos. He said they were having a general meeting and had…
By any serious measure of development, the strength of a nation is inseparable from the strength of its institutions. Institutions – public, private, and civic – shape incentives, enforce rules, and determine whether policies translate into real outcomes. In Nigeria,…
President Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela. The best option for all is for the US to return Maduro and his wife with apologies and pay compensation for the lives taken and damages caused. But peace is not in the DNA of…
As political conversations gradually shift towards the 2027 governorship election in Oyo State, familiar arguments have once again resurfaced. Chief among such issues of contention is the subtle, but persistent attempt to frame succession through the prism of religion. While…
I pray that the new year, 2026, unfolds with fresh opportunities, meaningful growth, and endless possibilities. Amid the many emerging topical issues, this piece focuses on a troubling trend in academia: the growing reliance on predatory publications and the declining…
Nigeria enters 2026 not with swagger but with the limp of survival. The past year felt like a rickety ride: pistons rattled, warning lights fluttered, and the driver kept insisting the vehicle was “fine”. Democracy’s engine spent 2025 in a mechanic’s workshop –…
Like individuals make New Year resolutions at the beginning of a new year, President Bola Tinubu did the same last Thursday, at the start of 2026. He pledged that the Federal Government would pursue policies to further a strong economic…
When vindictiveness, vendetta and prejudice take hold, injustice can look like justice. That is the core problem with sustained narratives around contested claims that are repeated so often and eventually presented as settled fact. At the heart of the mischief-driven…
Justice is meant to stand upright, spine straight, eyes blind, scales balanced. In Nigeria, justice has learned a new yoga pose: a permanent headstand. Few events capture this inversion more starkly than the prosecution of Nigeria’s former Attorney-General and Minister…
Politics, when taken seriously, is not theatre. It is administration at scale. Societies do not progress by emotion alone; they advance through competence disciplined by purpose. From Ajase-Ipo in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State has emerged a figure…
In the time it took you to brew your morning coffee, the economic reality for a trader in Nairobi or a fintech founder in Lagos may have fundamentally shifted. In the developed West, consumer sentiment is a slow-moving tanker, shifting…
The article by Mr Tunde Odesola, published in The PUNCH on Friday, December 26, 2025, under the title “Alaafin Oyo Cuddling a Dead Empire’s Legacy” is regrettably insulting, rude, and completely devoid of the civility, restraint, and decorum expected of…
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