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Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps

By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
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Morka: Birthday with three crowns

Morka: Birthday with three crowns

By Williams Eghebi Naturally, we should roll out the drums, gongs and several other percussion instruments to celebrate the birth anniversary of our dear friend and brother, Barr Felix Morka (CON), the National Publicity Secretary of APC. We cannot just celebrate this rare gift with music alone. Pounded yam served with Ujuju (myrianthus arboreus ) […]

Bashir Bolarinwa Omolaja: When leadership beacons

Bashir Bolarinwa Omolaja: When leadership beacons

By Lateef Giwa Just as it’s been described, “Leadership is the ability to influence, inspire, and guide individuals or teams toward achieving a shared goal. It involves setting a clear vision, fostering collaboration, and driving innovation. Effective leaders enhance performance by fostering trust, developing others’ potential, and adapting to change, often empowering teams to achieve […]

Okpebholo’s roads and sceptics’ hearts

Okpebholo’s roads and sceptics’ hearts

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 […]

Giving well deserved kudos to a tireless reformer

Giving well deserved kudos to a tireless reformer

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 […]

The global energy hypocrisy, African dilemma, and carbon contradiction

The global energy hypocrisy, African dilemma, and carbon contradiction

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 […]

Aguntan o paso esi da — Kwara can and should get newer

Aguntan o paso esi da — Kwara can and should get newer

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 […]

Why side hustle has become the main hustle in Nigeria

Why side hustle has become the main hustle in Nigeria

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 […]

INEC, ADC and the Latin phrase: Another view

INEC, ADC and the Latin phrase: Another view

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 […]

On Diri’s six years of silent but impactful revolution in Bayelsa

On Diri’s six years of silent but impactful revolution in Bayelsa

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 […]

Nigeria’s AI Generation: Winning at home, leading abroad

Nigeria’s AI Generation: Winning at home, leading abroad

By Anthony Iwelumo Judging from hospital screening rooms to language classrooms, artificial intelligence (Al) is quietly rewriting the rules of industries that touch billions of lives. And while the headlines tend to focus on Silicon Valley giants and billion-dollar funding rounds, some of the most consequential work is being done by researchers connecting Al to […]

Fejiro Oliver’s unfounded attack on Tantita Security: An exegesis of excellence, integrity, and National service

Fejiro Oliver’s unfounded attack on Tantita Security: An exegesis of excellence, integrity, and National service

Fejiro Oliver’s unfounded attack on Tantita Security Services Limited: An exegesis of excellence, integrity, and National service By Christian Cassidy The recent diatribe by one Mr. Fejiro Oliver against Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, (TSSNL), represents more than mere criticism—it is a deliberate campaign of calumny, engineered to undermine a proven defender of Nigeria’s economic […]