By NICK DAZANG Viewed against the backdrop of the 2017 and 2021 election cycles, the off-season governorship election in Anambra State which held on November 8, 2025 was a splendid departure. It altered the doom-and-gloom narrative that defined those two previous elections. Recall that in 2017, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its cohorts, mobilised […]

By MUKHTAR YA’U MADOBI The unfolding controversy involving senior officials of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, and PRNigeria publisher, Mallam Yushau A. Shuaib, raises urgent questions about institutional accountability, ethical communication and the sanctity of digital privacy in Nigeria’s public sector. What began as a petition alleging unauthorised interception of a private editorial […]

By CHINENYE NWAOGU The Peoples Democratic Party once styled itself as the largest political party in Africa. It governed Nigeria for 16 uninterrupted years and boasted confidently that it would rule for 60 years. Its national spread, electoral dominance, and financial muscle created the illusion that it was untouchable. Yet the seeds of its decline were already […]

The decision of the 69th National Council on Education (NCE) to cancel the National Language Policy has met with great condemnation

There are moments in a nation’s life when acts of institutional recklessness force us to pause and ask uncomfortable questions