By EBUKA UKOH Manduro is not a city. It is a warning. It is the visible outcome of a long, quiet process in which institutions weakened, public trust thinned, and leadership drifted from presence to performance. Territories do not fall suddenly. They rot first.  Manduro did not disappear all of a sudden; it faded through years of […]

There is a moral line every government must be careful not to cross. Taxation, though essential to state survival, becomes questionable when it ignores the lived reality of the people. In today’s Nigeria, where millions struggle daily to afford food, transport and shelter, the aggressive push to expand the tax net raises a troubling question: […]

By TANIMU YAKUBU THE Emmanuel Orjih’s essay being circulated is rhetorically powerful, but its “simplicity” is achieved by subtracting the very provisions that determine the outcome. That is not clarity; it is selective accounting. Let’s dismantle the argument on its own terms—calmly, sequentially, and with arithmetic that actually follows the law. 1) The core confusion: pension […]

By VICTOR-BANDELE DADA For much of the post-colonial era, developing nations were encouraged to pursue progress by imitating the historical development trajectories of industrialised economies. This article argues that such copycat development has reached its historical and structural limits. The argument is advanced through three inter-related perspectives: the internal crisis of governance in the developed world […]

By LADIPO ADAMOLEKUN All governments are coalitions. The choice is whether the coalition is within one party or between several.— The Economist, October 28, 1995. Nigeria: Coalition Government for a Decade Each time I reflect on the future political system for Nigeria, I feel that the overwhelming evidence is for a coalition government to succeed the […]