‘Ghost’ beneficiaries beneficiaries of N33/7bn cash transfer
• Doubts over whether billions in benefits reached poor Nigerians By Dele Sobowale The N33.75 billion transfer controversy, now rocking the nation, is neither new, nor did the massive fraud stop in 2026. The well-oiled and entrenched mechanisms for transferring public funds, meant for poverty alleviation, into the bottomless pockets of public servants, continues till today […]
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
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 […]
In ‘Becoming an Immigrant,’ Ademola Adefolami dwells on ambiguity
Before a plane lifts, before a border is crossed, the essay situates us in a mind already in transit—restless, questioning, uncertain
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
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, […]
