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When the state turns the law against dissent under Tinubu’s watch

When the state turns the law against dissent under Tinubu’s watch

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 ...

From laboratory to market: Can Nigeria finally turn University research into jobs and wealth?

Marwa: A General who ages backwards at 73

Structural diversification: Leveraging natural resources, culture and financial inclusion for Nigeria’s revenue future

Government has no business in business? Ask Odu’a

Tinubu’s fuel subsidy gamble: Nigerians paid the price, now Atiku offers a way

Ibrahim Masari: The political bridge builder in the Tinubu administration

Ibrahim Masari: The political bridge builder in the Tinubu administration

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 ...

Restoring fuel subsidy will reverse Nigeria’s economic gains

Restoring fuel subsidy will reverse Nigeria’s economic gains

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 ...

Peace on paper, Peril in practice: Why 2027’s elections remain at risk

Peace on paper, Peril in practice: Why 2027’s elections remain at risk

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 ...

Starting small: Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat’s blueprint for building real progress

Starting small: Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat’s blueprint for building real progress

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 ...

Poverty, reform and the problem of causation

Poverty, reform and the problem of causation

By Tanimu Yakubu The seduction of the wrong conclusion An increasingly familiar claim in Nigeria is that widespread poverty, nearly three years into the reform programme, is itself proof that the reforms have failed. Poverty remains widespread. Hardship is visible. From those facts comes the claim that the reforms undertaken since 2023 stand condemned. The ...

Dangote Refinery IPO: When Africa begins to own what it builds

Dangote Refinery IPO: When Africa begins to own what it builds

By Abiodun Alade There are moments when a company listing is more than a transaction. It becomes a statement about who gets to participate in wealth creation. The proposed public offering of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals could become one of those moments. If completed as currently contemplated, the listing would rank among the ...

Four days to Osun poll: How election will be won and lost

Four days to Osun poll: How election will be won and lost

By Ismail Omipidan Four years after a coalition of PDP chieftains helped propel him to power, Governor Ademola Adeleke is watching that same coalition crumble with just 96 hours to the polls. The defection of former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, ex-SSG Fatai Akinbade, and other party stalwarts to the APC has not only depleted the governor’s ...

Osun governorship poll: Advantage AMBO

Osun governorship poll: Advantage AMBO

By Tunde Rahman With just a few days before the August 15 Osun State governorship election, the political calculus is already shifting. The election is a two-way horse race between incumbent Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke of the Accord Party and his challenger, the All Progressives Congress candidate, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji – popularly branded ...

A road worth commending

A road worth commending

By Babafemi Ojudu I am going to play a dangerous little game this morning. It will make the BATists happy, at least for a moment the Obidients furious, and the cynics exclaim, “Ṣé bí we told you? All politicians are the same. He don dey look for job!” Gbogbo wọn ò gbádùn. Well, let the ...

Setting the record straight: Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi, Lagos APC Chairman, championing youth inclusion and people’s choices

Setting the record straight: Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi, Lagos APC Chairman, championing youth inclusion and people’s choices

By Opeyemi Eniola In the dynamic and sometimes intrigue-laden politics of Lagos State, where narratives of sectional groups and entrenched cabals often take centre stage, Hon. (Pastor) Cornelius Ojelabi has distinguished himself as a unifying leader. As the re-elected Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, he has consistently prioritised youth inclusion, grassroots ...

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Three voices, One warning: What Abuja's emerging markets forum revealed about Nigeria's narrowing window By Ummie Kabir For two days, precisely Wednesday and Thursday, July 29th and 30th, last week, the auditorium of the Central Bank of Nigeria headquarters became a stage for a conversation Nigeria in particular and the the continent in general, can ...

President Tinubu’s north-east road revolution: Rebuilding hope through infrastructure renewal

President Tinubu’s north-east road revolution: Rebuilding hope through infrastructure renewal

By Sunday Dare In every nation's history comes a defining period when leadership is measured not merely by promises but by the courage to confront longstanding challenges with determination, strategic vision, and sustained action. For Nigeria, that defining moment is unfolding under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose Renewed Hope Agenda has placed ...

Nigeria’s Stanford warning: When institutions normalise the abuse of power

Nigeria’s Stanford warning: When institutions normalise the abuse of power

By Dakuku Peterside Sometimes, a country confronts scandals that appear disconnected: corruption in one institution, brutality in another, and questions of legality or accountability elsewhere. Each controversy briefly dominates attention before the next takes its place. Yet beneath the shifting headlines, a deeper pattern may be emerging. Nigeria may be living through such a moment. ...

Tegbe and the pathway for democratisation of transparent electricity billing

Tegbe and the pathway for democratisation of transparent electricity billing

By Mathew Ibiyemi For years, Nigerian electricity consumers have complained about arbitrary estimated billing by utility providers, with millions of households and businesses enduring the burden of unmetered energy estimates. The practice has steadily eroded public confidence and constrained growth across the country's power sector. A vivid illustration of this widespread frustration was captured in ...

Why Nigeria’s private sector will support Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as the next Governor of Lagos State

Why Nigeria’s private sector will support Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as the next Governor of Lagos State

By Opeyemi Eniola Lagos, Nigeria’s economic heartbeat and Africa’s most populous megacity, stands at a critical juncture. As Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second term winds down, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has coalesced around Deputy Governor Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat as its consensus candidate for the 2027 governorship election. For Nigeria’s private sector, from multinational corporations ...

Zulum edifying Borno’s future: Notable upshots from the weeklong Southern Borno tour

Zulum edifying Borno’s future: Notable upshots from the weeklong Southern Borno tour

By Dauda Iliya The faster Professor Babagana Umara Zulum strides towards the terminal date of his 8-year governorship stint in Borno State, the firmer he gets in his determination to bequeath to his successor a state sprinting towards full recovery and prosperity on a smooth Future-Secured turf. Over the last seven years, Zulum has trotted ...

Ademola Adeleke: A Governor at the heart of Osun

Ademola Adeleke: A Governor at the heart of Osun

By Goke Awoyemi I have had the challenge and privilege of profiling notable state actors in Osun State, leading to the discovery that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke is at the heart of the people of Osun State. Born 66 years ago into the family of a labour activist, Late Raji Ayoola Adeleke, who was ...

Intelligence is the grandfather of successful military operations

Intelligence is the grandfather of successful military operations

By Oluseyi Petinrin Students of military operations, including its planning and execution, know that intelligence is the grandfather of most successful operations. But it is a fact that is not immediately obvious to many members of the public and even to some that have spent years in the military establishments. The ORIRE kidnap victims' release ...

The battle before the 2027 ballots

The battle before the 2027 ballots

By Dakuku Peterside By the time Nigerians file into polling units in 2027, the most consequential battle for the nation's democracy may already have been fought—and perhaps won or lost. Elections are merely democracy's public ceremony, the visible culmination of political choices shaped long before the first ballot is cast. The real test of democratic ...

Smart balance oil reduces bad cholesterol

Smart balance oil reduces bad cholesterol

Every time we sit down for a meal, a silent process is happening inside our bodies that most of us never even think about. We often talk about "cholesterol" as a single boogeyman, but the truth is more nuanced. Your body needs cholesterol to build healthy cells, but it is a delicate balancing act. There ...

Nigeria must work! Because millions have nowhere else to go

Nigeria must work! Because millions have nowhere else to go

By Idowu Adewara There are millions of Nigerians who have never applied for a visa. Not because they have not dreamed of it, but because they cannot afford to dream that far. They are running businesses, raising children, caring for ageing parents, and paying for electricity they generate themselves. They are not waiting to be ...

Where failure is free, nations pay

Where failure is free, nations pay

By Dakuku Peterside There is a powerful lesson in the political fate of Keir Starmer, but it is not merely a British lesson. It is not about Westminster drama, Labour Party turbulence, or the familiar theatre of parliamentary politics. It is about a deeper principle without which no democracy can remain healthy for long: leadership ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu at 61: A legacy of service to Lagos

Babajide Sanwo-Olu at 61: A legacy of service to Lagos

By Gboyega Akosile ‎Every public leader eventually arrives at a moment when the conversation changes. The debates of the day begin to give way to the judgement of history; power gradually yields to legacy. History, after all, is often kinder to reflection than it is to politics. It is in such moments that achievements acquire context, ...

Biting inflation is taking a toll on Nigerian education

Biting inflation is taking a toll on Nigerian education

By Basheeroh Omowumi Hashim Something fragile is beginning to crack in our classrooms. It is neither the tired walls, nor the dusty chalkboards, but the promise of schooling itself. Inflation has moved through the education system like a slow, stubborn storm. Food prices rise, transport costs swell, electricity tariffs climb, and somewhere within that rising ...

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