By Abiodun Alade As Aliko Dangote turns 69, his story demands to be read not as a biography of wealth, but as a case study in Africa’s unfinished industrial argument. For decades, the continent has lived with a structural contradiction. It exports raw materials and imports finished goods. It produces crude oil but imports refined fuel. […]

There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of a colonial past, that make the courtroom forbidding. It is the language, especially Latin, that often turns justice into an elaborate puzzle, hiding meaning in plain […]

Jos – A women-led peace agreement has been signed to strengthen stability and cooperation among communities affected by recurring conflict in Plateau and Kaduna States. The cross-border initiative, was facilitated by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) with support from the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), under the Peace Core Project as well as […]

By DANIEL ALABRAH On February 13, 2020, less than 24 hours before the scheduled inauguration of a new governor in Bayelsa State, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered a verdict that altered the state’s trajectory. In a pronouncement many still call a “divine miracle,” Senator Douye Diri was declared the rightful winner […]

A former Minister of Power and Steel, Wole Oyelese, has berated Nigeria’s political elite for what he described as a sustained focus on “self-aggrandizement, internal power struggles, and elite consensus,” to the detriment of the masses grappling with deepening economic hardship.