Why Nigeria doesn’t need more training programmes but better employment systems
By SAM DAIBO Nigeria has become a nation of training programmes. Every week, somewhere across the country, another graduation ceremony celebrates young people completing courses in coding, welding, agribusiness, fashion design, renewable energy or entrepreneurship. Governments launch new empowerment schemes. Development partners fund fresh skills initiatives. Companies proudly invest in youth capacity-building. Yet millions of […]
Obi’s misreading of politics and power
By SUNDAY DARE If the recent decamping of Peter Obi from the Labour Party to the African Democratic Congress was intended to detonate like a political bombshell, it failed spectacularly. What arrived instead was a dull thud—unremarkable, unsurprising, and terminally familiar. Nothing more. Nothing less. The script had been written long ago, recycled endlessly, and now—ironically—with […]
Why US has no interest in Sheikh Gumi – Onoh
By Josef Onoh President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent directive to security agencies to intensify action against terrorists has coincided with renewed public commentary by Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, including a viral video in which he claimed that a “top official in Abuja” warned him of an alleged plan by the United States to target him as […]
A Defining Moment for Nigeria: Why staying the course matters
As we enter a new year, the questions that fill our markets, our homes, and our places of work are clear and urgent.
Between Federal Government Revenue and the Federation Account
By TEMITOPE AJAYI Public debate on government finances in Nigeria is once again clouded by confusion, little knowledge, and deliberate misrepresentation. At the centre of the current controversy is a misunderstanding of the distinction between total revenue generated by government agencies and the portion that actually belongs to the Federal Government. The confusion has been amplified by […]
2026: What the year expects us to spread
By EBUKA UKOH Every new year carries a promise. But some carry an instruction. The year 2026 arrives not as a whisper but as a charge. It asks a simple question. What are you spreading? Ideas spread. Attitudes spread. Courage spreads. Fear spreads. Excellence spreads. Neglect spreads. A nation does not change only through policies. It changes […]
Why Peter Obi remains in the conversation
By Imisi George Integrity is not a commodity. It cannot be manufactured by power, nor accumulated by wealth. It is earned over time, sustained by consistency, and tested under scrutiny. Recent remarks by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, criticising Mr Peter Obi following his defection to […]
How will Yemi Cardoso and CBN fare in 2026?
As 2026 dawns, Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and his colleagues at the apex bank must, no doubt, be taking stock and reviewing the bank’s performance in 2025.
From promise to performance: Rebuilding Ogun under Dapo Abiodun
By Kayode Akinmade An examination of how focused leadership and strategic investments are redefining development in the Gateway State. History is often unkind to leaders who inherit complexity. It demands instant miracles while ignoring the weight of what came before. Yet, every so often, a leader emerges who understands that transformation is not always loud […]
Reflecting on Aminu Tambuwal’s 60 years of impact
By Ade Ebimomi In 2011, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal happened upon our national consciousness when he won, against all compounding and confounding odds, the seat of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 10th Assembly. And for four years, Tambuwal fought for and achieved what an ideal separation of power is-as intended by the framers […]
Interior Ministry: Driving reform initiatives in Paramilitary agencies
The Interior Ministry has, in the last two years, mobilised paramilitaryagencies in the direction of internal security reorganisation and affirmation, writes Emmanuel Onani.
