It is not an exaggeration to say that the average Nigerian driver often behaves like an unintentional suicide risk. The danger does not usually come from mechanical failure or acts of fate but from our everyday recklessness and collective disregard…

If anybody deserved to be called Mr PUNCH, it would undoubtedly be this Ijebu-born, Lagos city boy, who undeniably gave his all to an organisation that took him from ‘nothing’ to something regal and admirable… His reputation had been out…

Blood is thicker than water, so the saying goes. But not in every case. Sometimes, workplace fluidity possesses the same viscosity as blood. The seed of my relationship with a longstanding friend and colleague, Hammed Shittu of ThisDay newspapers, was…

Oby Ezekwesili This year’s co-winner (alongside Mr Drago Kos, a former chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery from 2014 to 2022) in the Lifetime/Outstanding Achievement category is the inimitable Dr Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili, a former education minister in Nigeria, former…

When the argle-bargle busted through the mainstream and social media space a few days ago, my heart jostled in the cognitive practice of self-questioning. I asked myself what really is the real reason is for this unfolding battle between Africa’s…

Until Africa returns to this fundamental truth, that no one is above the law and that justice must be blind to privilege, the continent will continue to chase shadows. Let us be mindful that corruption is merely a symptom; the…

In my November 26, 2025 piece titled “A nation where classrooms, sanctuaries become killing fields”, I catalogued some of the fresh cases of insecurity at the time — from school abductions to killings in worship centres — and argued that…

President Donald Trump Haile Selassie warned about what would happen if a strong nation could destroy a weak people with impunity. The world ignored him then. Africa should not ignore the warning now — especially when the language of “deals,”…

Trade is a form of exchange. This can be an exchange of commodities or services, even ideas. Trade practice has been from time immemorial and is as old as mankind.  AI Overview says, “Trade is the voluntary exchange, buying, or…

What a year it has been for Nigeria, one that might yet go down in the country’s foreign relations history as one of the most consequential. Not since the era in which Nigeria played a frontline role in decolonising Africa…

The video of Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, chastening the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, during her coronation ceremony in Ile Ife reminded me of what I think was my first encounter with her about 14-15 years ago at their…

In every nation, there are groups whose contributions are visible and celebrated, and there are those whose sacrifices are carried quietly, etched into their bodies, their nerves, and their memories. Soldiers belong to the latter category. They return from service…

The viral video of a heartless businessman mixing dye in palm oil—popularly called red oil—to sell to unsuspecting consumers with huge financial gains for himself has emitted so much angst and anger in the country that one cannot help but…

Not long ago, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, said that in the current insecurity situation in Nigeria, the life of every Nigerian matters (“Every soul is precious to God”). Some other preachers…

The Nigerian godfathers of oil rent, to paraphrase Yergin, are putting up fierce resistance against the new dynamics that Dangote’s entry is bringing into the industry. Ahmed is not the last stand, only a symbol of it. Just as Dangote often asks…