Still on Oshiomhole’s spat with Minister of Works
By SUNNY IKHIOYA David Umahi is an intelligent man, and everyone can see this from his interactions, especially as they concern construction engineering, but how he manages to get into trouble with people, including the press, is what keeps baffling people. He came in, hands on, prepared for the job, with his performance record in […]
James Ibori @68: The Illusion of Power and Reality of Legacy
The reason for this permanence in the hearts of the people goes far beyond performance in governance — it is rooted in his character, all-inclusiveness, and unmatched capacity to extend love to rivals.
Godwin Ebosa at 60: The Measure of a Good Man
By Michael Tidi History remembers certain men differently. It remembers them not because they accumulated unusual wealth or occupied powerful offices, but because they quietly altered the destinies of other people. Their greatest monuments are neither buildings nor titles, but the lives they transformed, the hope they inspired and the values they left behind. Such […]
Nigeria’s $2.4 trillion economy and the myth of poverty
By Samuel Caulcrick Nigeria is not poor. Nigeria’s resource distribution is badly allocated, which is Pareto inefficient, slowing national growth and harming both the rich and the poor. That distinction matters because it shifts the conversation from “how do we get richer” to “how do we share better for a better bargain for all.” The latest […]
Nearly One Phone Every Second: The economics of phone theft
A phone used to be just a piece of equipment. Today, it can be the entrance to a person’s financial and digital life.
How the New Army Formations Will Rewrite Kwara’s Security Story
By Bashir Adigun For years, the people of Kwara State have lived with a painful contradiction. Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s most peaceful states, Kwara has increasingly found itself on the frontline of insecurity, with criminal elements exploiting its vast forests, porous borders, and sparsely populated rural communities. Read Also: New Army Divisions: Veterans split over timeline, […]
Alex Otti’s three-day memory
By James Udemba On Tuesday, 21 July, Remi Tinubu visited Abia State and Governor Alex Otti rose to welcome the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, with a tribute to her husband that no card-carrying APC chieftain could have bettered. He asked the gathering to thank the President for his sacrifices. According to Governor Otti, it […]
Celebrating foreign education: The hypocrisy of contemporary Nigerian leadership
By CHEKWUBE E. NZOMIWU Late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, in his influential book “The Trouble with Nigeria,” identified failure of leadership as the single core problem of Nigeria. In the 68-page book, first published in 1983 by Fourth Dimension Publishers, Achebe argued that there is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land, air, climate or the […]
How Africa’s fight against transnational networks is changing
Efforts to counter transnational organisations and networks in Africa are no longer confined to proscription orders or terrorist designations.
Nigeria yet to Practise Omoluabi social democracy — Prince Faloye
By Chris Onuoha President of the African Sociocultural Harmony and Enlightenment Foundation (ASHE), Prince Justice Faloye, has expressed dissatisfaction with the current APC administration, describing its neoliberal leadership style as un-African. Faloye, who is the national publicity secretary of Afenifere, stated this in a press release, saying Nigeria is at the bottom of the global […]
Dr Stanley Uzochukwu: The “Osoafia” boy from street who became builder of men
AI Researcher, University of Hertfordshire, UK Some people receive an opportunity and build a comfortable life. A rare few receive an opportunity and build a ladder through which thousands of others can rise. Dr Stanley Ifeanyi Uzochukwu belongs to that rare company.
