By Lanre Basamta There are moments in the life of an industry when progress does not look like growth. It looks like a subtraction. It looks like pain. It looks like a sudden fall in numbers that once gave comfort to executives, investors, regulators, advertisers and the public. That is what happened to Nigeria’s telecommunications sector […]

By Taiwo Nolas-Alausa The Chartered Institute of Directors Nigeria (CIoD Nigeria) strongly believes that the systemic weaknesses afflicting governance in our nation’s public sector and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) constitute a first-order national development emergency. Corruption, procurement fraud, weak board oversight, fiscal opacity, and the persistent culture of impunity in public institutions are not peripheral administrative […]

By Wilson Okorugbo There is a pattern in Delta politics that has become tired, predictable, and costly. It’s the politics of borrowed identity. Senator Ovie Omo-Age perfected it. He embodied it so completely, it’s not for wont of the right label to tag it the ‘Agege Doctrine.’ Under the Agege Doctrine, election season sounds like […]

A remarkable development in Bart’s final year in school was his taking to sports during the Inter-House Sports Competition and dusting established athletes. 

By Adetoro Banwo The 105 years anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party, CPC, brings to the fora the fundamental principles that have shaped the party in historical and modern times. A party that was founded by a group of intellectuals such as Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao built a new China through […]

By Livina Oluchi Maduabuchi Nigeria stands at a demographic crossroads. With over 70 million young people aged 15–35 — nearly 35% of our population — we possess a potential demographic dividend that could propel us into the ranks of the world’s leading economies. Yet, this promise is perilously close to becoming a demographic disaster. Youth unemployment […]

Those who want a Nigeria changed for the better cannot dally with distractions. Pay no attention whatsoever to money-motivated sorcerers striking prophetic poses

By Yakubu Ahmed BK The political landscape in Nigeria shifted decisively this week as the All Progressives Congress (APC) moved to formalise its preparations for the 2027 general elections .In a ceremony marked by high-level political engagement and a display of party cohesion, the APC officially submitted the nomination forms of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu […]

Across Africa, a new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging — bold, ambitious, and determined to build businesses capable of competing on the global stage

.A tactical, technical breakdown of a match that rewarded precision over possession By Paul Lucky Okoku Football is not won by who controls the ball the longest. It is won by who uses it the best. Possession creates possibilities. Precision creates champions. For the second consecutive FIFA World Cup meeting between France and Morocco, the […]

By Ominimini Obiuwevbi There are moments in the life of a people when silence becomes complicity. This is not one of those moments. The Ethiope State Creation Committee has followed Senator Ede Dafinone’s public statements with the patience of people who have learned, through long and painful experience, not to expect too much from a […]

By Israel Fagbemigun For decades, renewing a Nigerian passport was synonymous with frustration.The process often involved repeated visits to immigration offices, hours spent in queues, uncertainty over timelines, and in some cases, allegations of unofficial payments to fast-track applications. For Nigerians living abroad, the experience could be even more demanding, requiring long-distance travel to embassies […]

For many observers in Lagos, those recommendations sounded familiar. They are, in many respects, the same measures that have shaped the environmental policies of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration over the past several years.

By Moses Braimah “A government that spends more time explaining theopposition than explaining its achievements mayalready know where its real problem lies.” Nigeria is a fascinating country. Explain it to someone and watch them nod eagerly, only for them to confess moments later: “I still don’t understand.” If you claim to fully grasp Nigeria, you […]

By FRED CHUKWULOBE   As another July 10 comes around, public attention naturally returns to the dramatic abduction of Governor Chris Ngige in 2003, an event that remains one of the darkest episodes in Nigeria’s democratic history. But beyond the crisis itself, the date also brings back deeply personal memories of how I unexpectedly left journalism for […]