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How the New Army Formations Will Rewrite  Kwara’s Security Story

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

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

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 […]

Nigeria yet to Practise Omoluabi social democracy — Prince Faloye

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 […]

N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

N210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem

By MAHMUD JAFAR The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once […]

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

Tompolo, Otuaro and Borders

By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou Borders are the plagues of any society; borders are also the joys of any society. Border management strategies intentionally mapped out do produce results that become either destabilising or beneficial when viewed through the lens of man’s struggle for self-actualisation and social belonging in a society where identity-building is all. However society […]

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

Millions still rely on emergency airtime as inflation squeezes household budgets

By Tricia Eneh As rising food prices, transport fares and other living costs continue to strain household budgets, millions of Nigerians are relying on emergency airtime services to stay connected, reinforcing the growing importance of digital connectivity for work, business, banking and everyday communication. The service, widely used by prepaid mobile subscribers, allows eligible customers […]

Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems

Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems

By SAM DAIBO  Nigeria has become a nation of training programmes. Every week, somewhere across the country, another graduation ceremony celebrates young people completing courses in coding, welding, agribusiness, fashion design, renewable energy or entrepreneurship. Governments launch new empowerment schemes. Development partners fund fresh skills initiatives. Companies proudly invest in youth capacity-building. Yet millions of […]