By Olamide Adeyeye Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the language of ambition. In boardrooms, classrooms, policy circles, and startup communities, AI is now spoken of as though it were the one unavoidable road to relevance. The pressure is immense: adopt it, integrate it, teach it, scale it, or risk being left behind. But amid all […]

By Kayode Bamisile Abuja’s metro population has passed roughly four million people, up from under three million a decade ago, and it remains one of the fastest-growing capitals on the continent. New towers, new roads, and new commercial districts have followed that growth every year. What hasn’t kept pace is the supply of places worth […]

Suave, exact, and unbothered. Where Ronald sees the piece, Gilbert sees the puzzle, and, more importantly, sees how the pieces lock

Then entered Tantita in August, 2022, when it was appointed by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari through the NNPCL

By Ufuoma Egbe The tragedy of Okuama has left deep wounds. Families have lost loved ones, a community has suffered devastation, and several Okuama leaders have remained in detention for an agonising period. Their plight deserves justice, compassion and sustained public attention. But precisely because the tragedy is so painful, it must not become an […]

By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU The state of being swept into oblivion after a sacrificial engagement to free a people from developmental enslavement sounds retrogressive and meaningless. It sounds retrogressive and meaningless because it has no historical bequest to inspire and guide the next generations away from the path that once convulsed their entire existence like the deadly […]

By Owolola Adebola There was a time when the way we greeted a person said something about who we were. A young man did not casually address an elder by his first name. A junior officer understood the difference between speaking to a colleague and speaking to a superior. A child knew that “Sir,” “Ma,” “Uncle,” […]

By Kudzai Gumunyu Nigeria’s food crisis is often described as an agricultural challenge. Increasingly, it is something else: a test of whether the country can reinvent the financial systems that underpin food production. The urgency is hard to ignore. Even as headline inflation eased to 15.9% in June, food inflation accelerated month on month, driven […]

What was needed was leadership capable of turning reforms into practical action. Ojulari, with decades of experience in the petroleum industry, brought to the position the professional background and industry knowledge required for that task.

A country enjoys a human capital dividend when investment in its people leads to better skills, higher productivity, better jobs, higher incomes and stronger economic growth.