From long queues to doorstep delivery: Nigeria’s passport renewal goes digital in the UK
By Israel Fagbemigun For decades, renewing a Nigerian passport was synonymous with frustration.The process often involved repeated visits to immigration offices, hours spent in queues, uncertainty over timelines, and in some cases, allegations of unofficial payments to fast-track applications. For Nigerians living abroad, the experience could be even more demanding, requiring long-distance travel to embassies […]
IWD 2026: giving is the strategy for gender equality
Each year, the world marks International Women’s Day with conferences, corporate statements, media campaigns and heartfelt tributes
These voodoo electricity bills
By EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO Power(electricity)is one of the subsectors of the national economy that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government has failed to revive from its hitherto moribund status. Nigeria has had energy poverty as one of the severest challenges undermining the prosperity of millions of Nigerians for decades. Electricity poverty is one of the causes of […]
Biodun Jeyifo: What is Left When the Left Left Us?
By Tunji Olaopa The past few weeks have been dedicated to the news of the demise of elder intellectual and scholar, the late Professor Biodun Jeyifo, and to the celebration of his towering legacies in scholarship and activism. BJ, as he was fondly called, is one of the few intellectuals whose scholarship comes attached with […]
When no one owns decision, the nation pays the price
Nigeria’s greatest institutional risk is not technology failure — it is structural accountability failure_ By Henry Naiho Nigeria is not short of ambition. Across the country’s most strategic sectors, visible progress is undeniable. Banks deploy AI-driven credit models and real-time payment platforms. Telecommunications networks rely increasingly on automation and predictive optimisation. Energy institutions pursue grid […]
That Julius Takeme weeping like Jesus Christ
By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou Something psychologically destabilising has just swept the earth in Obotebe, Ngbilebiri, Isaba and Gbaramatu Kingdoms in Burutu Local Government Area and Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. So, Chief Dr. Julius Takeme, the Chairman of Burutu Local Government in Delta State, wept, mind swept off the cautionary traditional code that […]
