Can Nigeria build new millionaires through Dangote IPO?
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA Nigeria has a long, painful, and largely unreported history with shares. The promise of ownership has repeatedly been used to separate ordinary citizens from their savings, and the consequences have rarely been visited upon those responsible. Between 2007 and 2009, an estimated N800 billion was funnelled into private placements that promised future […]
Like Venezuela, like Nigeria
By SUNNY IKHIOYA A lot has been said and written about President Donald Trump sending US troops to Venezuela, kidnapping the president of the country, and bringing him to America. The motives have also been debated in several quarters. My intention in this piece is to understand how a sovereign nation can be so weakened to […]
AFCON 2025 Observatory: Jersey You Can’t Buy – Why African football is leaving billions on the table
Everywhere I turned, airports, fan zones, street markets, there was only one shirt on offer: Morocco
Balancing Passion, Purpose, and Progress: Lessons from building skincare brand
Ebun Derma was born from recognizing the gaps in skincare for melanated skin and the desire to create solutions that truly deliver results
Manduro: How nations lose territories in peacetime – Lessons for Nigeria
By EBUKA UKOH Manduro is not a city. It is a warning. It is the visible outcome of a long, quiet process in which institutions weakened, public trust thinned, and leadership drifted from presence to performance. Territories do not fall suddenly. They rot first. Manduro did not disappear all of a sudden; it faded through years of […]
Re: ‘Bola’s Tax’: When ‘Simple Logic’ becomes simple misdirection
By TANIMU YAKUBU THE Emmanuel Orjih’s essay being circulated is rhetorically powerful, but its “simplicity” is achieved by subtracting the very provisions that determine the outcome. That is not clarity; it is selective accounting. Let’s dismantle the argument on its own terms—calmly, sequentially, and with arithmetic that actually follows the law. 1) The core confusion: pension […]
