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Ending the annual ritual of transport extortion

Ending the annual ritual of transport extortion

As surely as the Harmattan dust settles, Nigerians are currently bracing for their annual December punishment: the arbitrary, crippling hike in transport fares. This yearly menace preys on the basic human desire to reunite with family, as commercial operators inflate fares by outrageous margins, leaving millions of citizens stranded or financially wrecked. We must ask ...

Nigeria cannot build democracy on judicial contradictions and party chaos

Negotiating with terrorists is a betrayal of our commonwealth

A generation on hold, the painful cost of school closures in Northern Nigeria

FG must act now to halt looming ASUU strike

Kwara church killings: How religious violence endangers Nigeria’s economy

Beyond cancelled trips

Beyond cancelled trips

The decision by President Bola Tinubu to postpone his scheduled trips to the G20 Summit in South Africa and the AU-EU Summit in Angola is a welcome, albeit overdue, recalibration of priorities. For a Presidency that has often been criticized for perceived aloofness in the face of domestic crises, staying home to confront the escalating ...

Kebbi girls abduction, will this become another Chibok or Dapchi?

Kebbi girls abduction, will this become another Chibok or Dapchi?

Nigeria has been thrust once again into a heart wrenching tragedy, the abduction of 25 schoolgirls from Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State. Twenty five young girls taken away in the dark of night. A Vice Principal gunned down in the line of duty. A school turned into a battlefield. A nation ...

Assassination attempt on Lt. Yerima demands clarity

Assassination attempt on Lt. Yerima demands clarity

Just days after his highly publicized confrontation with FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Naval Lieutenant A.M. Yerima has become the center of a new storm: an alleged assassination attempt now mired in contradictory accounts from Nigeria's security agencies. The news of the alleged attempt broke on Sunday evening, detailing how unidentified men, dressed in black and ...

195,000 vacancies threaten the nation’s future

195,000 vacancies threaten the nation’s future

Nigeria is teetering on the brink of an educational crisis of unprecedented scale, largely due to a crippling teacher shortfall. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) recently revealed a deficit of 194,876 teachers in public primary schools, a stark figure exposing decades of neglect and abdication of duty by all levels of government. This isn't ...

Sustaining Nigeria’s fragile food relief

Sustaining Nigeria’s fragile food relief

After long months of despair, hardship, and rising food prices, Nigerians are finally experiencing a faint sense of relief as the cost of staple foods begins to drop in some parts of the country. For countless households that have endured the pain of hunger and the humiliation of watching their income lose value, this modest ...

Saving Nigeria’s lost generation

Saving Nigeria’s lost generation

Nigeria faces a silent, insidious threat, far removed from the usual political noise, the twin evils of human trafficking and drug transit. These are not mere crimes, they are billion-naira underground industries preying on widespread poverty, institutional corruption, and weak governance. The result is a nation that has become both a vast reservoir of victims ...

Choking the lifeline of terrorism

Choking the lifeline of terrorism

Terrorism in Nigeria today isn't just a fight on battlefields, it's a financial war fought quietly, complexly, and often from afar. Repeated reports, videos, and sanctions have highlighted cross-border networks, money laundering schemes, and local facilitators that keep groups like Boko Haram and its splinters operational. Yet, despite arrests and periodic seizures, sponsors and financiers ...

A plea for immediate dialogue: Ending the Osun Judiciary strike

A plea for immediate dialogue: Ending the Osun Judiciary strike

The complete paralysis of the Osun State justice system since September 19, 2025, due to the industrial action by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), presents a deeply worrying crisis. While the workers' demands for improved welfare, the implementation of delayed promotions and entitlements, training sponsorships at the National Judicial Institute (NJI), and provision ...

Sustaining the battle against fake drugs

Sustaining the battle against fake drugs

The recent revelation by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) regarding the destruction of over 80 containers of fake and substandard medicines and food items offers a profound look into the dual challenge Nigeria faces, a public health crisis and a deeply rooted moral decay. As Dr. Martins Iluyomade, Director ...

Trump’s genocide remark casts long shadow over Nigeria’s economy

Trump’s genocide remark casts long shadow over Nigeria’s economy

Donald Trump’s recent claim that Nigeria is witnessing a “Christian genocide,” coupled with his threat to suspend U.S. aid and consider military intervention, has ignited diplomatic outrage and economic anxiety. Beyond the rhetoric, the remark risks inflicting tangible harm on Nigeria’s economy by shaking investor confidence, heightening sovereign risk, and threatening the country’s fragile recovery ...

When care fails, the plight of Nigeria’s girl child

When care fails, the plight of Nigeria’s girl child

Across Nigeria, the growing neglect of children, especially the girl child, has become a silent crisis with lasting and profound consequences for the nation’s future. The home, which should fundamentally be a place of guidance, discipline, and moral nurturing, is increasingly losing its hold on this core responsibility. The tragic result is a generation of ...

Nigeria’s sovereignty belongs to Nigerians

Nigeria’s sovereignty belongs to Nigerians

A storm is brewing between Nigeria and the United States, raising serious concerns across the African continent. The recent whispers of American threats, covert meddling, and talk of a possible invasion have ignited deep disquiet, summoning the ghosts of 2015 when Washington’s influence cast a long and uncomfortable shadow over Nigeria’s democracy. Many Nigerians still ...

Saving Nigeria’s energy hub dream from collapse

Saving Nigeria’s energy hub dream from collapse

Nigeria's exciting new energy narrative its emergence as a regional trading hub for refined petroleum products stands at a perilous crossroads. While the massive 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery and government deregulation have transformed the country from a net importer to a potential exporter, chronic infrastructure deficits now threaten to undermine this industrial triumph. ...

When negligence becomes a national crime

When negligence becomes a national crime

Over 3,400 Nigerians died in road crashes between January and September 2025. In 2024 alone, 5,421 lives were lost, a seven per cent increase from the previous year, according to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC). Behind these numbers are grieving families and wasted potential. Nigeria’s roads have become open graves maintained by government neglect ...

Kudos, President Tinubu

Kudos, President Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu’s decisive action to revoke the controversial presidential pardon previously granted to Maryam Sanda and approximately 140 other high-profile inmates marks a defining and crucial moment for Nigeria’s rule of law. While the President may have been previously ill-advised, the move, though highly unusual, reflects a necessary realization that mercy must never be ...

A cry for opportunity not escape

A cry for opportunity not escape

Across the country, a quiet but steady movement of people is telling a painful story. Every week, airports are filled with young professionals clutching one-way tickets, leaving behind family, friends, and the only home they have ever known. This is not mere travel, it is a cry for opportunity, a desperate reach for a future ...

Between reform and rumor: Tinubu’s sack of Service Chiefs and Nigeria’s security dilemma

Between reform and rumor: Tinubu’s sack of Service Chiefs and Nigeria’s security dilemma

President Bola Tinubu’s abrupt removal and replacement of the country’s service chiefs on October 24, 2025, was billed by the Presidency as a move to “deepen professionalism” in the armed forces and sharpen the state’s response to persistent security threats. The change which installed new chiefs at the Defense, Army, Navy and Air Force commands ...

Why Nigeria must choose skills over empty degrees

Why Nigeria must choose skills over empty degrees

Nigeria's ambition for economic growth and industrial independence will remain an illusion unless it decisively repositions vocational and technical education (VTE) as the bedrock of its national development. For too long, the nation has glorified certificates over competence, flooding the labour market with unskilled graduates while industries desperately search for qualified hands. It is time ...

The peril of presumption

The peril of presumption

Nigeria's Constitution guarantees the fundamental rights to personal liberty and dignity. Yet, for countless young Nigerians, this promise is frequently eroded by a vague legal concept, reasonable suspicion. This ambiguity, coupled with rampant stereotyping and inadequate training among enforcement agents, has transformed a necessary legal tool into a pervasive instrument of harassment and injustice. The ...

Nigerians cry for safety demands decisive action

Nigerians cry for safety demands decisive action

Across Nigeria, an intensified wave of public concern reflects the profound pain of communities who increasingly feel unsafe in their homes and places of worship. From bustling cities to quiet rural towns, citizens are gathering, praying, and speaking out about the relentless insecurity that continues to claim innocent lives and disrupt livelihoods. These assemblies, often ...

The gambling craze

The gambling craze

What was once an occasional pastime is now a lifestyle, a daily routine, and for millions, a misplaced dream of success. From bustling city betting shops to mobile screens in remote villages, this booming enterprise has captured the imagination and the wallets of young Nigerians. Gambling has silently woven itself into the fabric of Nigeria’s ...

Technical education: The strategic path to reducing youth unemployment

Technical education: The strategic path to reducing youth unemployment

The challenge of unemployment, particularly among young people, remains a critical vulnerability for the Nigerian economy. While recent data indicates a positive trend in the overall national unemployment rate, the situation for youth necessitates a more targeted and aggressive policy intervention focused on skills development. Recent statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for ...

The national challenge of insecurity and the imperative for collective action

The national challenge of insecurity and the imperative for collective action

The proliferation of kidnappings across Nigeria has undeniably grown into a formidable national challenge, one that tests the very foundations of our collective peace and stability. Recent data from SB Morgen, while deeply concerning, serves as a stark reminder of the escalating nature of this crisis. The reported 4,722 abduction incidents between June 2024 and ...

Nigeria’s poverty crisis and the shrinking span of life

Nigeria’s poverty crisis and the shrinking span of life

Across the world, nations are measuring progress not merely by economic figures, but by the quality and longevity of human life. Unfortunately, Nigeria’s latest ranking in the United Nations World Population Prospects report lays bare a painful truth — that for millions of Nigerians, life remains short, harsh, and uncertain. At an average life expectancy ...

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