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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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OPEOLUWA ADEBAYO: A life committed to service

By Balogun Gbadura In the heart of Akoko, Ondo State, a growing force for community development continues to take shape through the work of Engr. Opeoluwa Adebayo, President and Founder of the Olobe Adebayo Charitable Foundation. Driven by personal experiences of hardship and resilience, Adebayo has built a reputation for consistent and structured philanthropy, focusing on […]

Katsina APC Primaries: A case study of Mani and Bindawa local government

By Abduŕrazaq Abdullahi As preparations for the 2027 general elections gather momentum, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State is facing internal tension following the emergence of a candidate for the Mani/Bindawa Federal Constituency. Ahmed Saleh Junior, who is well-known in Mani and Bindawa Local Government Areas for his community support and political involvement, […]

Nigerians, Are we weaponizing our local culture against our socioeconomic development?

By Philip Obazee Cultural Density Is Not the Question Nigeria does not suffer from cultural emptiness. On the contrary, Nigeria is one of the most culturally dense societies in the world. Across its regions, languages, religions, ethnic communities, towns, villages, and urban neighborhoods, one finds a vast inheritance of meaning: respect for elders, communal obligation, […]

Restoring revenue integrity, correcting price distortions

By TANIMU YAKUBU The Illusion of Windfall Nigeria’s contemporary fiscal discourse has been captured by a convenient but fundamentally flawed proposition: that the removal of subsidy—particularly petrol subsidy—yields an immediate fiscal windfall. This claim is not merely inaccurate; it is analytically indefensible. Subsidy removal does not create liquidity. It eliminates a distortion. It corrects a mispricing. […]

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