Investigating and understanding Oborevwori’s triangular tide
By Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere, but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in build and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide. There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when […]
Return of Tinapa and C-River’s economic renaissance
By FRED BASSEY The recent full repossession of Tinapa by the Cross River State Government—after years of legal knots and ownership complications with the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON—is a decisive turning point. The air is clearer, the asset is back home, and its future is no longer suspended in uncertainty. For the first time […]
Why road accidents kill more Nigerians than most diseases
By David John Idiong Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) remain one of the most devastating yet poorly addressed public health emergencies in Nigeria. Globally, RTAs cause more than 1.3 million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2023). In Nigeria, the situation is even more alarming. Studies by Owolabi et al. (2020) and […]
Nigerian leaders and the limits of authority
By KALU OKORONKWO To understand Nigeria’s leadership dilemma, one must peel back the layers between power and authority, two concepts often conflated but fundamentally different. Nigeria’s governance crisis persists largely because leaders continue to believe that possessing power is the same as possessing authority. Power is the ability to compel action. It is loud, immediate, and […]
Death is an illusion
“Death is an illusion because it happens once, it is only a gate to that perpetual life”
Why Africa must build faster, cheaper payment rails without delay
At the Africa Blockchain Festival in Kigali, where I hosted my first panel session, the conversation centered on a challenge every African business
