Comrade Edwin Madunagu’s long march to 80
By SOLAR Collective May 15, 2026, marked the 80th birthday of one of Nigeria’s most enduring revolutionary intellectuals — Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu: mathematician, journalist, Marxist theorist, archivist, teacher, agitator, and organiser. For more than five decades, Edwin Madunagu has stood firmly on the side of workers, students, women, peasants, and the oppressed. While governments changed, dictators […]
‘Worst in South West’: Ondo doctor-to-patient ratio hits 1:6,200 – NMA warns
— Threatens strike over decry collapsed health sector, poor pay By Dayo Johnson Akure Medical doctors in Ondo State have threatened to embark on industrial action, citing worsening conditions in the state’s health sector and poor welfare. Speaking at a joint press briefing in Akure, Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Ondo State Chapter, Dr. […]
Wema Bank sets May 20 deadline for children’s One-Day CEO competition
By Henry Obetta Wema Bank has announced Wednesday May 20, 2026, as the deadline for entries into its Children’s Day One-Day CEO competition aimed at giving children and teenagers an opportunity to experience executive leadership in the banking sector. The initiative, introduced in 2025 as part of the bank’s 80th anniversary celebration, allows a selected […]
Nigeria is not hungry because it has to be
There is a particular kind of national failure that is hardest to forgive, not the kind born of poverty or limited means, but the kind that occurs in the presence of abundance. Nigeria has 70 million hectares of arable land, one of the most productive young populations on the continent, and rainfall that most of […]
BACCIMA seeks stronger Customs, private sector partnership on trade
By Esther Onyegbula The Badagry Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, BACCIMA, has commended the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Dr Adewale Adeniyi, for what it described as the agency’s remarkable commitment to trade facilitation, innovation and modernisation of customs operations aimed at improving cross-border commerce and economic growth. BACCIMA President, Alhaji Yahaya […]
UK-based social critic, Mogbolu, commends appointment of John Nwabueze as Nigeria’s Tax Ombudsman
By Japhet Davidson A rising influential youth voice in Delta State and a United Kingdom-based social critic, Ifeanyi Samson Mogbolu has praised the appointment of Dr. John Nwabueze as Nigeria’s Tax Ombudsman, describing the development as a strategic and progressive step toward strengthening transparency, accountability, and good governance within Nigeria’s tax administration system. Speaking during […]
