In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah, who created souls and gave them life, who honoured them through Islam and made them precious, and who threatened those who transgress against…

Nigeria has not consciously addressed the question of designing the country’s political philosophy based on the knowledge of its history – precolonial and colonial, the failures of the present, and the opportunities as well uncertainties of the future. As the…

More than 60 years after surviving a civil war that nearly shattered its fragile unity, Nigeria deserves truth, context, and healing, not narratives that fan ethnic hatred. History must be approached with care and intellectual honesty, supported by evidence from…

The Nigerian oil and gas industry has frequently been in the news for various reasons. Decades before the Petroleum Industry Act was enacted in August 2021, the country’s oil and gas exploration sector faced significant challenges due to unclear rules,…

Ejo ki i se ti ara eni ki a ma mo da (One must be honest with oneself, even when judgement is uncomfortable). Any fair reflection on the present controversy surrounding the Alaafin’s place within contemporary governance must begin with…

Now, Canada was amongst the first to hear the wake-up call, leading us to fundamentally shift our strategic posture. Canadians know that our old comfortable assumptions that our geography and alliance memberships automatically conferred prosperity and security – that assumption…

Something is unsettling about how often Yoruba royalty now finds itself locked in arguments over rank while the land they preside over groans under neglect. The Yoruba are heirs to a tradition renowned for philosophical depth and political sophistication. Sadly,…

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…