By Paul Ade-Adeleye I did not come to Governor Monday Okpebholo’s administration with applause . I came with a raised eyebrow. Before his election into the executive seat of Edo State, I was not sold on the man. I had seen too many promises dressed in fine agbada and too many campaigns that could talk a […]

Within the ambit of the Renewed Hope Agenda, integrity takes a critical spotlight as a delivery strategy. This provides a framework by which we can assess the PPA

By Philip Agbese  In this present generation, institutions like the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have been blessed with a leader whose tenure has become a reference point for courage, clarity, and uncommon administrative excellence. This leader has not simply supervised the agency, he has breathed a new life into the system that may have become […]

Jos, the Tin City that one knew, had lost its placidity and had in fact, become a timebomb waiting to explode

By Kizito Alakwe The United Nations Climate Change Conference published its executive report on the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 30) on March 26, 2026. The conference took place in Belém, Brazil. After two weeks of intense discussion, member nations made a series of decisions that are now known as the Belém Political […]

Rafiu Ajakaye, PhD. As I walked by the Government House gate last Saturday morning for my exercise, a man and his two little children — a boy and a girl — sauntered on the other side of the road, just before the Office of the Deputy Governor. The little ones joyously gestured at the prancing horse. I […]

By Teddy Appa-Dankyi In today’s Nigeria, earning a stable income increasingly means earning from more than one source. As households respond to rising living costs and limited access to formal employment, flexible work platforms are becoming part of how many people adapt to economic uncertainty. Among these platforms, ride-hailing is emerging as one of the […]

Her “Maria Ake Kit,” born from a deep well of empathy, is more than a collection of essentials, it is a cradle of hope for mothers and newborns

There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of a colonial past, that make the courtroom forbidding. It is the language, especially Latin, that often turns justice into an elaborate puzzle, hiding meaning in plain […]

By DANIEL ALABRAH On February 13, 2020, less than 24 hours before the scheduled inauguration of a new governor in Bayelsa State, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered a verdict that altered the state’s trajectory. In a pronouncement many still call a “divine miracle,” Senator Douye Diri was declared the rightful winner […]