By VICTOR-BANDELE DADA Systemic instability in political economy is primarily a product of cognitive failure rather than inherent moral turpitude. By distinguishing between “unenlightened” (short-horizon) and “enlightened” (long-horizon) self-interest, agents frequently undermine their own long-term utility through a failure to account for systemic interdependencies.  Drawing on Socratic philosophy, Smithian economics, and modern Game Theory, this paper […]

he deeper issue, then, is not Sowore versus Obi as personalities, but how a society manages the balance between revolutionary urgency and reformist patience

By MANUAL KEITA  Almost half a year after Paul Biya’s inauguration as President of Cameroon for an eighth term, his country is facing increasing tensions in the security sector. This time, the instability comes from outside Cameroon – from its regional neighbours, including Chad, the Central African Republic, and Niger, and most importantly, Nigeria.  By […]

It was in 2022. I was on the road to Abeokuta for one of Governor Dapo Abiodun’s campaigns when my phone rang. It was MISA. We had not spoken in close to a year, and at the time, we were on opposite sides in court. I answered expecting the friction that comes with litigation. Instead, […]

This strategic relationship allows for a bidirectional flow of ideas and expertise from the government to the think tank and technocracy, and right back

By WALE EDUN As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Prime Minister Keir Starmer met at 10 Downing Street to discuss the future of our two countries, I felt a quiet but unmistakable sense of pride. What I witnessed was not the old posture of a junior partner seeking favour. It was two leaders and two teams […]

By Fred Chukwuelobe Imagine, for a moment, that there was no airline called Air Peace. Imagine that one man didn’t dare to conquer the skies.   Imagine thousands of Nigerians travelling to Abuja, Owerri, Enugu, Benin, Port Harcourt, Kano and several other destinations, forced onto long, dangerous highways. Imagine students stranded by prohibitive airfares, with nowhere to turn. […]

LASPARK has begun engaging landscape architects to support its core mandate of developing and managing parks, gardens, and open spaces.

The message must be clear and uncompromising: the court is not a parlour, and the courtroom is not a platform for insolence

By EBUKA UKOH Nigeria is ranked 106th on the Global Happiness Index. Noteworthy too is that Nigeria, over the years, dropped all the way from 102nd to another position before settling at 106th. At the same time, Nigeria stands among the world’s most terror-affected countries, with violence claiming lives at an alarming pace. In recent months, […]

By LADI ALAPINI As Nigeria pushes ahead with one of the most expansive road infrastructure programmes in its history, a quiet but consequential question sits beneath the asphalt and concrete: who will supply the millions of street light poles required to illuminate these highways? The instinctive answer should be Nigerian fabricators. Yet, without a deliberate and […]

By Dr Roy Chikwem On Nigerian social media, one pattern stands out, Nigerians living in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and parts of Europe frequently post videos and threads describing how hard life abroad has become. Yet across Australia and New Zealand, Nigerians remain noticeably quieter. The disparity raises an important question: why […]

​In Ozoro, Delta State, the recent viral reports of a “Seven Day Raping Festival” have sent a tremor through the national conscience

By IKENNA EMEWU  The land dispute between Edda and Amasiri in Ebonyi State has taken more than enough on society and the state than we know. Whatever creates a scar in the minds and memories of two neighbours and causes the cord of affinity to snap is a deep cut. That is what has happened between Edda […]

By NICK DAZANG  Due to shifts in the Muslim and Christian calendars, Ramadan and Lenten seasons tend to coincide about every 30 to 33 years. The last significant overlap was in mid-February 1993 when both seasons commenced on the same day. The last overlap prior to 1993 was in 1863. In a country which citizens put so […]