By TIMI OLUBIYI The ongoing tensions in the Middle East may seem geographically distant from Nigeria, but the economic effects are already being felt in very real and personal ways across many countries, including Nigeria, even though light at the moment. For ordinary Nigerians, the impact shows up in rising fuel prices which is already […]

By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA The departure of a nation’s brightest  minds is rarely a sudden rupture; it is a slow, agonising hemorrhage. In Nigeria, this “japa” phenomenon, which is a colloquialism for escape, has shifted from a quest for economic greener pastures to a desperate flight for survival. While thousands leave for better wages, a more […]

By SAMUEL OROVWUJE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s proposed state visit to the United Kingdom, the first by a Nigerian leader in 37 years, comes not as a ceremonial flourish, but as a strategic moment long delayed. It is unfolding against Nigeria’s toughest economic conditions in a generation, a fragile democratic climate, and a global system […]

By Bolaji Ogundele There is a certain kind of man who enters a room and does not announce himself, and yet, somehow, the room knows. The air shifts. Conversations pause. Eyes follow. This is the quiet, authoritative gravity of Christopher Airemiokhai Iluobe, born on Christmas Day, 1964, in the small town of Ivue-Uromi, in Nigeria’s […]

By Kingsley Adegbite  In Nigeria’s already fragile information environment, numbers have enormous power. When a public official declares that N210 trillion has gone missing, the figure is large enough to shock citizens, dominate headlines and inflame public anger. That is precisely why such claims must be handled with care and responsibility. Unfortunately, Senator Ahmed Wadada’s allegation […]