INEC and the road to 2027
By Ayo Ododo There are probably few jobs in Nigeria more thankless than conducting an election. The winner thinks he won because the people loved him. The loser is often convinced he lost because somebody somewhere tampered with the process. Between the two stands the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), praised by one side, condemned […]
How desperation turns Nigerian job seekers into scam targets
By TAHIR AHMAD “Hear this: recruitment is not conducted on social media. If you see a post on Instagram, TikTok, or WhatsApp claiming to offer Customs jobs, it’s fake.“ That was one of the striking lines from an AI-generated video I stumbled upon last weekend. That was while browsing the internet. It came from the Nigeria […]
Beyond ethnic profiling and indigenous fairy tales in Nigeria
By AMINU JAHUN The wanton ethnic killings in central Nigerian states are symptomatic of a substantially weakened Nigerian state. This should make not only the warring communities lose sleep, but every patriotic Nigerian concerned about the future of this country. The conflict is projected to the intellectual realm by the “immigrant” and “indigenous” brethren of parties to […]
SLAN hails UNILAG on landmark Architecture Faculty
For decades, Nigeria lived with this gap. Our cities expanded without adequate planning. Floods returned each rainy season, forests were cleared, and farmland gave way to concrete
Of criminals and touts
By NICK DAZANG Making a submission on August 6, 2025 at the National Conference of Egbe Awofin Oodua at Abeokuta, Ogun State, with the theme: ”Regional Justice, Security and Sustainable Development”, Femi Falana, SAN, lamented that our politics was in the hands of criminals and touts. Mr. Falana said such criminals and touts paid scant regard to […]
Warri, a distressed and a dying city
By MICHAEL OWHOKO Who will restore Warri back to its glorious days? A city that was once the pride of all Wafarians, is now a shadow of itself, rusty and reeking with aroma of poverty occasioned by systemic decline with people cocooned in deprivation and squalor. Warri is allusively known as Wafi, making the people and residents […]
