Early in the new year, the telecoms industry seems to have grown a healthy appetite to accommodate a perennial discomfort by subscribers. More than discomfort, the accommodation actually returns the money spent by subscribers on every failed activity initiated on the network, whether voice or data. This really provides some comfort. Even with all the progress […]

“A bridge is repaired only someone falls into the water”. African proverb. A huge quantity of our political values, fortunes and assets are critically endangered. This does not mean they are irretrievably lost. It means they are on margins that require  major efforts to retrieve them, or considerable incompetence or indifference to lose them. Human […]

A persistent fear in Nigerian politics is the emergence of a single-party system or a sole presidential candidate. Despite recurring anxieties, this outcome has never materialized. While recent party defections might suggest an invincible ruling party, Nigeria’s political history is defined by unexpected twists. Shattered dreams and surprise elements are inherent to our national life. The surprise […]

By JIDEOFOR ADIBE I was initially asked to speak on the topic of ‘what the Igbos want from Nigeria’. The topic was later modified to ‘Igbo Charter of Demands from Nigeria’, which I believe, was meant to be a set of demands to be tabled as bargaining chips with Presidential candidates in the 2027 election. I have […]

In one stroke, Venezuela has been turned into both a courtroom drama and a geopolitical doctrine. When U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on 3 January 2026, Washington did more than remove a leader it calls a narco-criminal; it tested—publicly, unapologetically—the tensile strength of the post-1945 diplomatic order built around sovereignty, non-use of force, and multilateral […]