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.
No, Abacha didn’t die in bed with a woman
Amachree then boasted that the lady’s version of events trumps the various theories, including stories about “imported Indian girls and poisoned apples,”
Seeds of Revival: Why Nigeria’s cotton farmers need stronger institutional backbone
As policymakers search for solutions, many stakeholders are converging on one proposition: that Nigeria’s cotton revival requires not only funding or isolated interventions but also an institution capable of coordinating the sector from farm to finished garment.
Fubara’s Medical Industrial Revolution: Rivers rises as Africa’s next pharmaceutical hub
Even more historic is the fact that the facility is projected to become the first of its kind in Africa to manufacture pharmaceutical-grade gelatine capsules and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients on a commercial scale.
EU introduces new mobilisation policy for Ukrainian refugees as war profiteering reshapes geopolitical economy
By Manuel Johnson The European Union is preparing to fundamentally alter the status of Ukrainian refugees as Kyiv’s military faces a critical shortage of personnel. On July 13, 2026, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that Ukrainians seeking temporary protection in the European Union may soon be required to present a document confirming they are exempt […]
The Bar Before the Bar, by Stephanie Shaakaa
History is an unforgiving archivist, and it does not record the eloquence of our pleadings when our conduct mocks our prose
NNPCL’s N7.1tn question: Why transparency must follow the money
By ADETUNJI ROGERS The latest scrutiny of N7.13 trillion recorded by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) as an energy-security expense in 2024 has reignited familiar questions about the national oil company’s financial accountability. According to NNPC Ltd’s 2024 audited financial statements, the expenditure arose from a mechanism linked to the difference between the […]
When a Toothache Becomes a Medical Emergency: Why too many Nigerians wait until It’s too late
By Mariam Olayode It often starts with something that feels manageable. A dull ache in the jaw. A tooth that sends a sharp signal whenever something cold touches it. A swelling that appears overnight and seems, at first, like it might go away on its own. Paracetamol first.Then ibuprofen. Then amoxicillin bought from a nearby […]
Nigeria: Beyond protest against hunger, kidnapping and fuel
By BEN OGU Nigeria is a country of those who neither understand their problem nor the root cause. Otherwise, it is nauseating that a country of learned and intelligent citizens of over two hundred million, blessed with a superfluity of natural resources and yet held in bondage of penury by a minute percentage of politicians, are, […]
2027: ‘Tinubu Again’ is Matawalle’s ace
Matawalle is not grandstanding. Neither is he on a trip of political brinkmanship. He is truly in cruise control, holding the ground in the north for Tinubu
C-PACT summit, AfCFTA and Nigeria’s emerging non-oil export economy
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda seeks to break that cycle by placing industrialisation, investment and export expansion at the centre of economic policy
