Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s Marmite president, is by no means a religious bigot. He is a moderate, even liberal, Muslim, who is surrounded, including in his immediate family, by practising Christians. However, for self-interested political calculations, Tinubu played the religious card to become president in 2023 by picking a fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima, as his running-mate. […]

If you’ve ever sat in a Nigerian exam hall—whether it’s JAMB, WAEC, or those brutal university finals—you know that feeling. The air is thick with tension. You can hear pens scratching furiously across paper, the occasional cough, and the sound of your own thoughts racing faster than you can write. Outside the hall, parents and family […]

Nigerians love clichés to bits. More often than not, you hear them regurgitate the famous “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried” quip by former British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The idea that democracy is the best form of government is a widely held principle in […]

Some opposition politicians, their supporters and other actors in the civic space on Monday made their way to the National Assembly in protest. They were unhappy that the Senate leadership rejected, as they claim, the position of the majority of the legislators that the results of the forthcoming 2027 elections should be mandatorily transmitted electronically in […]

For those who know him, it is apodictic that grace, spiritual muscle and the divine energy by which God operates, governs the theologico-spiritual architecture of the episcopacy of Archbishop Valerian Maduka Okeke. His forte is grace!