By Ayodele Akinola  Nigeria’s food challenge is often discussed mainly in terms of quantity: how many tonnes of grain are harvested, how much food reaches the market and whether farmers can produce enough for a growing population. But food security is more than filling markets or stomachs. It also concerns the nutritional value, quality, affordability and […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

A phone used to be just a piece of equipment. Today, it can be the entrance to a person’s financial and digital life.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Efforts to counter transnational organisations and networks in Africa are no longer confined to proscription orders or terrorist designations.

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 […]