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By Hashim Yussuf Amao Whenever hardship tightens its grip on Nigeria, whenever roads collapse, hospitals decay, schools deteriorate, insecurity spreads, unemployment rises, or public infrastructure crumbles, one familiar voice often reverberates. Fingers point towards Aso Rock. The President becomes the sole recipient of public outrage. Social media erupts, radio phone-in programmes become heated, market conversations ...
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By Tony Elumelu What defines success? And how can you replicate it? Two critical questions for any entrepreneur. Let me share my experience.Talent matters. Opportunity matters. Timing matters. Luck, as I often say, plays an important role. I have been lucky on my own journey. But with all that, we still face uncertainties, surprises, reversals. ...
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By Aderemi Ogunpitan The problem is not that the First Lady mentioned akara or kuli-kuli. The problem is that too many of us now dismiss honest work because it doesn't fit our idea of success. Across rural Nigeria, millions of people earn a living processing cassava into garri, milling grain, smoking fish, tapping palm wine, ...
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By AbdulAzeez AbdulAzeez Olumide In the race for political leadership, popularity often commands attention. Yet history repeatedly shows that the leaders who leave lasting legacies are not always the most visible; they are often those who possess the competence, experience, and capacity to translate vision into results. As discussions surrounding the future leadership of Lagos ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can no longer disguise decay, when restraint begins to look like indifference, and when good people must decide whether comfort matters more than truth. Nations do not decline only because bad actors are ...
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Recently in Oyo State, bandits attacked a school community in the Oriire area, and abducted students, teachers, and a school principal.The attack was violent and left the community in shock, with reports confirming deaths, including a teacher and a student. After the attack, reports surfaced that the bandits made several demands.They requested ₦1 billion ransom, ...
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Post-war life was not giving reliefIn 1945, after the Second World War ended, things were supposed to get better, but for Nigerian workers, life actually got worse.Even though the war was over, the economy remained unstable. Prices of basic goods kept rising, but workers’ salaries stayed the same.This made everyday survival increasingly difficult, especially for ...
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By Babajide Sanwo-Olu Africa’s cities will drive the next era of global growth. This year, the continent will overtake Asia as the world’s fastest-growing region, a shift unlikely to reverse as demographic momentum slows elsewhere. The instinct of investors, policymakers and multinational firms is to ask which countries will lead that rise. Yet it risks posing ...
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By Anthony Ubani There comes a point when silence becomes complicity. Nigeria has reached that point. I write not as a member of any political party, not as an agent of any opposition, and not as a man seeking political advantage. I write as a citizen of a country where life has become cheap, where children are ...
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By Tunde Rahman The recent abduction of schoolchildren in Ahoro-Esiele Community, Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State, remains deeply distressing. On May 15, 2026, heartless kidnappers abducted 38 schoolchildren, killing one teacher in a heinous assault on our nation’s security and educational system. The Nigerian Union of Teachers and students across the country have ...
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By Aderemi Oyebamiji Economic reforms are often difficult, demanding courage, vision, and a willingness to make tough decisions in pursuit of long-term national prosperity. Since assuming office, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has embarked on a series of far-reaching economic reforms aimed at addressing structural weaknesses in the Nigerian economy, restoring fiscal discipline, strengthening investor confidence, ...
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By Bayo Onanuga With politicking intensifying ahead of the January 2027 election, opposition politicians have escalated their campaign of misinformation and calumny to diminish the impact and achievements of this administration over the last three years. Two years ago, when the administration was struggling to deal with the unintended consequences of its historic reforms, the ...
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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt. A stable and peaceful environment remains essential for national prosperity. Since assuming office, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has pursued bold reforms aimed at repositioning Nigeria’s economy and ...
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By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department. — David Packard Juene Media Group-founded Africa CEOs Forum has sealed its place as the largest private sector gathering on the continent. It has become the rendezvous where investors engage leaders, tycoons meet mandarins, big ideas find platforms, and visions chance upon ...
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By Sunday Dare From Equatorial Guinea to Tanzania, from Accra to Addis Ababa, and now, from Nairobi to Kigali, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with sartorial elegance and swashbuckling confidence, is traversing Africa, preaching Nigeria’s reform story to the world. While the echoes of President Tinubu's economic reforms have since reverberated across every nook and cranny ...
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By Okey Ajaero Nigeria’s long fight with insecurity is too often seen only as a military problem. Troops are sent, raids happen, camps fall, suspects are taken. These steps are sometimes needed; no responsible government can ignore force when citizens face attack. But experience shows that force alone rarely brings lasting peace. It can quell ...
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By SF Ojo Emmanuel In every generation, certain leaders emerge as builders of systems, institutions, and long-term progress. Governor Dapo Abiodun has, over the years, distinguished himself as one of such leaders through a style of governance centred on development, stability, innovation, and measurable impact. His administration has steadily transformed Ogun State into a stronger economic ...
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By Uche Nnadozie Erasmus Ikhide’s essay is not the bold indictment it aspires to be; it is, rather, a textbook example of emotional maximalism untethered from the realities of international diplomacy. It confuses outrage for insight, theatrics for substance, and most critically ignorance for moral authority. Let us begin with the central claim: that President ...
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By Arábìnrin Adérónke I have had the privilege of working closely with Zacch Adedeji and I speak from direct experience when I say he is a refined professional, a disciplined technocrat, and a results driven leader. He is not a career politician, and it is both unfair and misleading to drag his name into the ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Can Nigeria’s states become true engines of development, or are they condemned to remain administrative outposts of a distant federal centre? This question has new urgency as citizens grow weary of a federation that promises much but delivers too little in the places where life is actually lived. Communities, farms, schools, hospitals, markets, ...
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By Dr Uche Ogah Nigeria’s development challenge is not merely a national dilemma. It is fundamentally a subnational issue that reflects deeper structural distortions within the federation. The federating units, which should function as engines of growth and hubs of innovation, have frequently underperformed due to institutional weaknesses, fiscal dependency, and limited governance capacity. If ...
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By Imoh Bright Nigeria’s economic debate remains stubbornly fixated on Abuja, as though the country’s future can still be engineered from the centre. That assumption is no longer just outdated; it is analytically wrong. The most consequential phase of Nigeria’s economic story will not be determined by federal policy alone, but by the decisions taken ...
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By Khadijah Olowode When we talk about the Olympics, we think of ancient Greece, Mount Olympus, Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic Rings, and athletes. Beyond being the biggest sporting event in the world, many stories are woven into that laurel wreath. They are stories of grit, determination, disappointment, and triumph. Every Olympics announces the arrival ...
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Efforts to end witchcraft accusations and persecution will amount to nothing and yield no significant results if police officers do not change their ways and stop obtaining money from accused persons through force and threat in Ebonyi state. Ebonyi is a hotbed of abuses linked to witchcraft beliefs. Accusations are rampant. Jungle justice and trial ...
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By O’tega Ogra There is a quiet shift happening in Nigeria’s education system. You will not find it in speeches neither will you find it in long policy documents. But if you look closely, you will see it in something far more difficult to dismiss. Evidence. Last week in San Francisco, at the Comparative and ...
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By O’tega Ogra There is a quiet shift happening in Nigeria’s education system. You will not find it in speeches neither will you find it in long policy documents. But if you look closely, you will see it in something far more difficult to dismiss. Evidence. Last week in San Francisco, at the Comparative and ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Democracy does not always die with the crack of gunfire or the drama of tanks rolling into the public square. More often, it is weakened quietly by rulings, memos, selective interpretations, procedural manoeuvres, manipulations, and institutions that begin to forget the moral purpose of their own powers. That is why the current ...
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By Kayode Akinmade President Bola Tinubu's visit to Ogun State last weekend could not have come at a better time. It showed the phenomenal things going on in the state. The atmosphere within and outside Abeokuta, the state capital, was electric. The president rode around the state commissioning landmark projects, and his excitement and relief ...
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By Funke Egbemode Ace Actor, my multi talented friend, Yemi Sodimu, started a riot with this post some days ago: "E wa o, dis omo meji meji that we are ‘borning’, se kii se wahala lojo iwaju for us in the south bayi?" I will explain it in simple terms. " Every Yoruba family now ...
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By Emameh Gabriel There is an old African parable. The monkey works all day, climbing trees and bending branches, sweating under the sun to gather fruits. When evening comes, the baboon arrives, climbs down from its resting place, and announces that it will now share the harvest. The monkey asks, 'What did you do?' The ...