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By Omooba Olumuyiwa Adejobi, fnipr The ability of a nation to effectively secure its borders, regulate the movement of goods and people, and collect legitimate revenue goes a long way in determining its economic development and national security. For a country as richly endowed, economically diverse and strategically positioned as Nigeria, the effective management of ...
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By Tunde Rahman When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday for Umrah, the lesser Hajj, it was a private spiritual journey. By Sunday, it had become a moment of national symbolism. In a rare gesture reserved only for visiting Heads of State, monarchs and top dignitaries, the Saudi Royal Court ordered the ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Nigeria’s political parties can tell us who will coordinate their campaigns, mobilise their supporters and deliver their strongholds. They owe us comparable clarity on who will deliver safer communities, functioning hospitals, and an economy where work pays. As preparations for the 2027 elections gather momentum, the machinery for winning power is becoming ...
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By Bola Ahmed Tinubu Since 2023, we have made difficult but necessary decisions: removing the petrol subsidy, unifying the exchange rate, modernising the tax framework, and coordinating action on inflation. These reforms have restored macro balance, quadrupled federation revenue since 2021 and rebuilt the credibility of the State’s balance sheet. The results are now visible: ...
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By Fredrick Nwabufo In May 2025, while on an official visit to Anambra State, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a bold, trenchant declaration that reverberated across the entire South-East. He had said: "Anambra and South-East possess huge gas reserves, yet the region has been largely bypassed by the national gas masterplan. I assure you that ...
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By Dakuku Peterside A Nigerian can keep every promise and still be asked to answer for promises his country has broken. At a foreign border, across a negotiating table or while pursuing an opportunity abroad, he may encounter suspicion before he speaks. His credentials are his own; the doubts belong to a larger story. Before ...
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By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz Through Kaduna, its old political capital, the North spoke yesterday. And the echo will haunt those who have spent months marketing the lie that the North has abandoned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Kaduna Township Stadium was full beyond capacity, and the mammoth crowd overflowed into the well-adorned streets. It was a confetti of ...
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By Ismail Omipidan When he is looking for something, he comes across like an Omoluabi. But the moment he gets it, you see his true colours. Several times, many have described him in unprintable terms. I defended him and argued that he was misunderstood. In fact, at some point, I practically begged journalists in Osun ...
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By Mohammed Manga Under the baobab of Zazzau, where we last weighed the quiet architect, the elders have a second teaching. They say: "You do not know who is a good host until you have watched how he treats a guest who has nothing to offer." They also say: "A home is not measured by ...
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By Ummie Kabir The CBN's 350-basis-point reduction is the sharpest in nearly two decades. Whether it helps producers or hurts the naira will depend on what comes next. When Governor Olayemi Cardoso announced the outcome of the 307th Monetary Policy Committee meeting, the benchmark rate fell by 350 basis points, from 26.5 to 23 per ...
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By Dakuku Peterside A voice message arrives on election morning. It sounds like an INEC official announcing that voting has been postponed. A woman at Mbiama, Kontagora, Ife or Ogoja who has arranged transport and prepared to queue stays home. The message is false. By the time she learns the truth, voting has ended. Elsewhere, a ...
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By Dr. Abba Aliyu (Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Rural Electrification Agency) Nigeria is at an important inflection point in its electricity-sector reform journey. For decades, our national conversation has rightly focused on a stubborn challenge: how do we provide reliable electricity to millions of Nigerians, particularly those living and working in communities where conventional grid ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a military government. But they may have finished school and not found a job. They have probably learned to plan trips around insecurity, and they almost certainly run a ...
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By Opeyemi Eniola Lagos is not just Nigeria’s commercial hub. It is the country’s economic oxygen. It drives a disproportionate share of national output through trade, manufacturing, ports, financial services, and logistics. In plain terms, Lagos does not merely contribute to the Nigerian economy,it sets its pace. What happens here does not stay here. Policy ...
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Nothing screams progressive reform quite like telling a citizen that his/her light might be unstable so that a manufacturer can chill her executive water bottles at sub-zero temperatures. However, here is the drift. After many years of financial illquidity in the power sector, darkness in many parts of the country and recurring national grid collapses, ...
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By Stanley Nkwocha The true test of a presidency is not only what the President says when the world is listening but who he can trust to say it when he is not in the room. At the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, passed that test ...
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By Kunle Odusola-Stevenson Africa stands at a defining moment in the evolution of its energy economy. For decades, the continent has exported crude while importing a substantial share of the refined petroleum products needed to power its transport systems, industries, businesses and households. This structural imbalance has transferred significant economic value outside the continent, while ...
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By Dakuku Peterside Past experiences show that Nigerians show up in large numbers on the world stage, even when the country has no direct stake in the outcome. Every September, when world leaders go to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Nigeria sends one of the largest delegations with little or no brief, ...
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When Joseph Tegbe was appointed Minister of Power, many observers reacted with the skepticism that typically greets leadership changes in the ministry. Key questions echoed across the industry: What will he do differently? What background does he bring to this complex sector? Some commentators even misinterpreted statements during his Senate confirmation, claiming he promised to ...
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By Seyi Bakare The emergence of Omooba Otukayode Hakeem Otufale as the new Olori Ebi of the Fusengbuwa/Jadiara Ruling House of Ijebu-Ode has opened a fresh chapter in the prolonged search for the next Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland. Coming after months of disagreements over the conduct of the succession exercise, competing claims to ...
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By Kolawole Olaniyan It is happening again. Under President Bola Tinubu, Nigerians are facing an increasingly repressive political and legal environment. Like the Muhammadu Buhari government before it, the Tinubu administration is making an utter mockery of Nigeria’s constitutional and international obligations to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law. There is something ...
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By Isa AbdulMumin When Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa stood before vice-chancellors and directors of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) in Abuja last month, his message was blunt: "Nigeria can no longer afford to fund research that ends on library shelves." "Nigerian university researchers are to get stronger access to investors, industries ...
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By Femi Babafemi Let me start with a confession that has become something of a running joke among those of us who work closely with Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), the man simply refuses to age like the rest of us. I witnessed this ...
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By Kemi Otunuga Nigeria in 2026 is at a turning point that demands urgent economic rethinking. With the global shift away from fossil fuels, persistent foreign exchange pressures, and growing expectations for public services, the country can no longer sustain itself on crude oil alone. Under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reform agenda, the national priority ...
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By Seun Kolade Long before “government has no business in business” became an article of faith in Nigerian public life, the people of the Old Western region had answered it in concrete. They took the proceeds of cocoa, gathered through public institutions, and built roads, schools, industries and estates. In 1965, Cocoa House rose above ...
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By Paul Ibe There comes a point in every government's life when explanations cease to matter and results become the only language citizens are prepared to hear. For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that moment has arrived. Three years after the dramatic declaration that “fuel subsidy is gone,” Nigerians are asking a brutally simple question: Are ...
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By Ishaq Samaila Every successful political leadership requires more than public speeches and official appointments. Behind the scenes are individuals whose strength lies in building bridges, nurturing relationships and providing the strategic guidance needed to keep political structures connected. Ibrahim Masari, Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Political and Other Matters, represents one ...
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By Mohammed Idris The renewed call for the restoration of petrol subsidy under any guise demands a clear-eyed examination of what Nigeria has gained from reform and what the country would have to surrender by reversing course. The scale of the problem is important to remember. In 2022, when Nigeria was struggling with declining oil ...
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By Dakuku Peterside There is something reassuring about the ritual of political rivals gathering beneath the same roof and signing their names to a common promise of peace. In a country where elections have too often been accompanied by intimidation, inflammatory rhetoric and violence, the symbolism matters. It says that political competition need not become ...
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By Opeyemi Eniola In Lagos, a city defined by high costs, intense competition, and relentless pressure, one radio exchange has reignited an old but often uncomfortable conversation about housing. Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, was asked a straightforward question: how does a 22-year-old earning around ₦100,000 monthly afford self-contained accommodation that now ...