Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers of neighbouring Benin Republic

By JOAN OVIAWE Across Edo State, the eight years that Mr. Godwin Obaseki held sway as governor were marked by a decisive and far-reaching transformation in public education. Through deliberate reforms, strengthened governance structures, and a relentless commitment to restoring public confidence, the Obaseki administration reshaped teaching, learning and school management across the State, laying the […]

African tech consolidation is creating unprecedented investment opportunities, and Wild Fusion Holdings is at the forefront, aggregating across Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya

By TOOCHUKWU OBIOTIKA  Christmas is a season traditionally associated with love, reflection, and goodwill. Yet each year, as the yuletide approaches, the tension and impatience in our society become more obvious. In Nigeria—especially across the South East—December exposes the cracks that have widened from January to November: unmet expectations, financial frustration, dashed dreams, and the widening […]

By EBUKA UKOH Nigeria surprises people who believe leadership involves duty. You watch a government hold an economic summit in a state that struggles with security. Then, you see who gets invited to headline it: The UK’s ex-Prime Minister arrives to applause, photo ops, and VIP escorts.  That spectacle passes for strategic governance. The actual benefits […]

By ERNEST OSOGBUE The recent coup de’tat in Guinea Bissau should begin to get all lovers of good governance in Africa worried about the fate of democracy on the continent. It has now become the vogue in recent years for impatient military officers to turn their guns against democratically elected governments. These officers, who pretend to […]

By Okey IBEKE Penultimate week, (17–19 November 2025), the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) convened a major continental meeting in Abuja – the Customs Partnership for African Cooperation in Trade (C-PACT) Summit. The event brought customs chiefs, policy experts and private-sector operators in Africa and across the globe together to tackle long-standing cross-border barriers and frictions […]

By NICK DAZANG General Christopher Musa’s spell-binding story must rank as the classical case of “the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone”. Consider: In a notable game of musical chairs, and chairs for the music, General Christopher Musa, as Chief of Defense Staff, CDS, as he then was, was removed with […]

Gridlocked in Lagos traffic on the eve of Art X Lagos’s 10th anniversary, I questioned whether the journey was worth it

By Mojeed-Ekelojumati Rahman The political architect of modern Lagos local governance, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (PBAT)—who midwifed the creation of 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in 2003 from the original 20 Local Governments-would no doubt be smiling at the visible fruits of that bold initiative. Alongside his trusted lieutenants and apex leaders -Otunba Bushura […]

BY DUMBI OSANI In an earlier article titled, “State Creation, Political Frivolities and the Anioma Question”, I debunked Senator Ned Nwoko’s assertion that the people of Delta North Senatorial District are Igbo. I categorically affirmed, based on linguistic and cultural facts, that the Ukwuani are not Igbo. I also questioned why the Senator is particular about Igbo […]

By AMINU JAHUN Kaduna, the North’s regional capital, recently hosted ACF’s silver jubilee celebrations. The scary state of the North should have made the anniversary a less celebratory and self adulatory exercise, and more of a prayerful and self criticism  exploration.“When a large swath of the North is an ungoverned space, there is need for prayers for […]

By VICTOR DADA Developing countries stand at a historic turning point. Their current socio-economic struggles: deepening poverty, weak institutions, infrastructural collapse, elite capture, political volatility, and dependency traps are not random misfortunes. They are systemic consequences of institutional and governance failures accumulated over decades. Emerging insights from Prosperity Governance & Management, PGM, now provide a scientific pathway […]

The role of public procurement is critical to economic growth and national development. It serves as a nexus between pricing, risk, sustainability, and the broader governance of a nation.

By Sola Adebawo I’ve been thinking about the atmosphere in the Nigerian Christian community lately, and it feels… tense. Not dramatic, exactly, but like one of those family meetings where everyone is avoiding eye contact because nobody wants to say the obvious. At some point, though, someone has to talk about it. Maybe that’s what this […]