Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
Who isn’t a patriot in Nigeria today?
By AMINU JAHUN The Patriots have been a leading elite group critiquing the 1999 Constitution(as amended) as a military imposition, lacking the imprimatur of the Nigerian peoples. In their quest for a democratic peoples constitution, the Patriots and the Nigerian Political Summit Group, NPSG, organised a National Summit on the Future of Nigeria’s Constitutional Democracy on […]
What Mandela might say to Nigerian leaders today
By EBUKA UKO I arrived in the United States in the fall of 2021 to start postgraduate studies, only to find myself engaged in conversations about Blackness in ways I had never experienced in over 30 years of life in Africa. Suddenly, I constantly faced questions that never really came up for me before. What does […]
How Taraba farmers will benefit from N500 billion ‘Produce for Lagos’ deal
By Oloye Ayodele Samuel In what is being hailed as a turning point for agriculture in Taraba State, Governor Agbu Kefas has positioned the state at the forefront of a historic new deal aimed at transforming food production and distribution in Nigeria. The recently signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Lagos State Government under […]
Why Nasir Bala Ja’o’ji should be minister
By Mukhtar Shuaib, PhD Since the confirmation of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), concerned Nigerians and groups came out to root for Honourable Nasir Bala Aminu Ja’oji as the best man to replace the former minister. One of such […]
Progressive Governors Forum: A pillar of support for Tinubu led APC
By Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh The progress of the Progressive Governors Forum in recent time under the APC led government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is being smoothened and soothed by a pinch of political diplomacy, courage, commitment to National development and party supremacy , thus establishing its essence as a truly dependable Pillar of support […]
How Tompolo is galvanising support for President Tinubu ahead 2027
High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, is a pro-development advocate and staunch President Bola Tinubu supporter
A new beginning doesn’t always look like fireworks
No, you don’t have all the answers. But maybe you don’t need them right now. Maybe you just need this — this soft, sacred becoming
Why Nigeria must retire its gerontocratic leaders
By CYNTHIA UMEZULIKE I rarely write about Nigeria anymore. Not because I have stopped caring—far from it but because it has become emotionally exhausting to grieve the same loss over and over again. Nigeria is a country that routinely betrays those who dare to believe in its promise. And yet, despite all evidence to the contrary, […]
Saint Martin’s President inspires at the African Ambassadors Economic Forum, Washington, DC — A Humble Call for Transformation
By Prof. Mannixs Paul At the 2025 , held July 18–19 at the Westin Crystal City Hotel Pentagon in Washington, DC, His Excellency President Louis Mussington of Saint Martin delivered a keynote that stood out not for grandeur, but for its humility, sincerity, and clear moral vision. As Guest of Honor, President Mussington joined a […]
Tantita, Tompolo and thoughts of termination
Consistent with the given contractual mandate, Tompolo had meaningful engagement with all stakeholders and employed competent persons from the communities
