One of the fallouts of President Bola Tinubu’s recent trip to Japan was the news that Japan had created a “hometown” for Nigerians in Kisarazu, a suburb of Tokyo. The impression it gave was that Japan would issue special visas (perhaps something like the American Visa Lottery), to enable willing Nigerians migrate to Japan, settle and […]

The telecom sector once very predictable in performance and visibility, and even in functionality and relevance, has suddenly become a sector needing urgent attention, as it attracts responses and reactions of all shades. It is not a good place to be at all.  Mixed reactions will be too much of a beautiful phrase to describe an […]

By Peter Egwuatu Pension Funds’ investment  in infrastructure funds grew by  49.4% Year on Year, YoY, to N242.799 billion in the first half of 2025, H1’25 from N162.488 billion in the same period 2024 (H1’24), indicating a sharp rise in the investment value of the sector. However, infrastructure funds accounted for a paltry 0.98% of the […]

Every year on August 21, the world pauses to honour victims of terrorism. In many countries, this is a solemn day of reflection, a chance to pay tribute to lives cut short and to stand with those who bear the scars of violence. But in Nigeria, remembrance cannot simply be about ceremony. It cannot be […]

“If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem”– African proverb. A new milestone has just been reached by the tragedy the world has watched unfold for almost two years now. A United Nations agency has confirmed the existence of hunger, mass starvation and famine engineered by Israel in Gaza […]

By Yinka Kolawole  The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has lamented the continuous declining investment in Nigeria’s manufacturing sector, noting that it reflects investors’ apprehension in making long-term commitments to the country’s real sector. Director General of LCCI, Dr Chinyere Almona, in a statement yesterday, while commenting on the latest data from the National […]

This has been one of the most widespread celebration of traditional religion, customs, ethos and culture of the Nigerian people in contemporary times. Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, speaking at the Isese Festival on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, stated that the essence was the peoples’ reconnection with their roots. Indeed, a people cut off from their […]

In 1981, Chief Gani Fawehinmi was already 16 years at the Nigerian Bar and one of its brightest stars.

In the Book of James, chapter 4 and verse 6, we are told that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. When a man knows in his heart that a feat wasn’t achieved by the effort put in his plan for a task but goes ahead to claim the glory resulting from […]

As at this morning, dear reader of the Orbit, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) remains a political prisoner, and a prisoner of conscience in Nigeria. Kanu continues to be held, against his will, and against the laws of the federation of Nigeria, whose courts have declared that he has broken […]

Last week, I took off a few minutes from my present preoccupation of establishing a tertiary institution to review latest events across Nigeria in line with the dictates of this column. News reports tended to point at Benue as a busy state until it became clear that all events appearing under the state were restricted to […]

Brethren, we all desire a new beginning in one area of life or the other.  In other words, there is something we would like to change for the better but we may be unable to do this all by ourselves because we are limited in our capacity to effect the change we desire. Therefore, we would […]

“It takes twenty years [or more] to make a REPUTATION and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that; you will do things differently”- Warren Buffett, 2022. “To murder one’s reputation is a kind of suicide; a detestable and odious vice”-  Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, in TOM JONES. Former Governor of Ekiti State and Federal […]

It’s softer than mistress and sassier than girlfriend. It feels almost normalized like it’s not just cheating, it’s a lifestyle

Secrets travel faster than they ever did in school corridors. For one person, it was just a fling. For another, it was everything