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For Jim Nwobodo, it’s about a good name

For Jim Nwobodo, it’s about a good name

For some time now, one Basil Ogbuanu, said to be a Lagos-based businessman, has been up and about dragging the name of Senator Jim Nwobodo and his wife, Patricia. At issue is a piece of land at an estate owned by the former governor of old Anambra State. I hear the matter is already in […]
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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 […]

Marshall plan for devastated petrochemical host community

Marshall plan for devastated petrochemical host community

By UDO IBUOT “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, […]

AI, labour displacement and the erosion of sub-national IGR

AI, labour displacement and the erosion of sub-national IGR

By OLATUNDE BAKRE Nigeria as a piece of the global financial landscape is drifting along, albeit surely and unavoidably, with the innovative trend most of which are disruptive to human capital deployment in business strata. In every workplace and until the recent past, driving efficiency is hinged on adopting some form of automation, process re-engineering and […]