The strength of every genuine democracy is tested not only at the ballot box but by the vitality of opposition parties. Today in Nigeria, the troubling question is whether the visible disarray within opposition ranks signals something deeper — a slow drift towards one-party dominance under the All Progressives Congress, APC. Across the country, defections […]

The legal and political stand-offs over local government leadership in Osun State has evolved into a logjam in grass roots democracy in Nigeria. What began as a contest over electoral legitimacy has grown into a broader constitutional and governance crisis, with direct consequences for citizens. At the centre of the dispute is the fallout from […]

The vegetable and edible oil sub-sector, which is critical to the Federal Government’s food security programmes, is under severe strain from the unchecked influx of imported and smuggled products. Nigeria is naturally endowed with vast oil-palm belts across the South and expansive soya bean farms in the Middle Belt. We should not be dependent on […]

The escalating crisis in the Middle East is no longer a distant geopolitical drama for Africa; it is an economic tremor felt from the ports of Lagos to the markets of Nairobi. For a continent already navigating debt pressures, inflation and currency volatility, instability in a region central to global energy and trade flows could […]

Nigerians, especially those in the rural areas, live with the ever-present pollution of their only sources of potable water – springs, streams and small rivers. This is mostly due to lack of government diligent attention to the welfare of the people and outright lawlessness by citizens, including corporate citizens. The people of Amankwo of Agbada […]

Latest figures from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, NBS, indicate that Nigeria’s non-oil export sector recorded a healthy rise despite the severe security challenges occasioned by occupation of our forests and farmlands by armed criminals. Export of unprocessed raw materials fetched the nation N2.9trn by September 2025 compared to N1.174trn by September of 2024. This […]

The savage attack that took place in Benin City, Edo State, on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 could be a sign that Nigerians might be in for a violent campaign and general election season. African Democratic Congress, ADC, leaders, including former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, gathered in the home of one of the party’s national […]

The recent petroleum industry directive issued by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stirred a necessary national conversation about reform, transparency and constitutional balance in Nigeria. The order, titled: “Presidential Executive Order to Safeguard Federation Oil and Gas Reserves and Provide Regulatory Clarity, 2026” seeks to tighten remittance procedures for oil revenues, an intervention aimed at […]

When markets fall silent, and highways lie deserted on what should be bustling workdays, the cost is not merely political; it is profoundly economic. Across parts of Nigeria’s South-East, sit-at-home orders, originally framed as a protest tactic by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have evolved into a recurring paralysis of daily life. What began […]

The Reverend Jesse Jackson established his eternal iconography when he leveraged his Rainbow-PUSH coalition to the Democratic National Convention in 1984, coming third behind Walter Mondale and Gary Hart in the race for the party’s presidential ticket. He also stood in 1989. He was regarded as the very heartbeat of American conscience. With his passing […]