THE immediate trigger for this essay is a chance encounter with an old schoolmate during our reunion two odd weeks ago in Abuja. The stories from that memorable event are for another day. Suffice it ...

Nigeria has been declared free of an active Ebola case following the medical evacuation of the country’s index patient and ...

Orezime: They summoned the liver at last to hold a meeting in Asaba! Emeka: Hmmm! Is that why you are dancing? Orezime: Yes! Is it not worth celebrating? I have been hiding my head in shame about ...

As Nigeria inches toward the 2027 presidential election, a growing number of citizens and commentators are questioning whether the process will genuinely offer voters a meaningful choice or merely ...

In this piece, I am interested in distilling the consequences, in economic and governance terms, of what investing in public service institutional reform would mean for the Nigerian government, going ...

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed– Friedrich Nietzsche. Since 2015, Nigeria has been governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ...

In a move said to be aimed at enhancing fiscal transparency, President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order that suspended the collection of management and frontier exploration fees by the ...

To be the first buyer of the latest iPhone 18 Pro Max in Cameroon is quite an achievement, isn’t it?. And even more problematic is the fact that following the launch of Apple’s latest offerings, which ...

There is no hiding place for millions of Nigerians. The excruciating poverty in the country is real. It continues to blaze with implacable fury. Millions of households are caught in the economic ...

Yesterday, the Oyo State Government honored me with its major award as part of the 50th-anniversary celebration. I was not there to receive it, but the Secretary of the Anniversary Committee accepted ...

By Tunji Olaopa At independence, Nigeria, in the midst of the euphoria amongst Nigerians and the huge expectations locally and internationally, was confronted with a series of possibilities and ...

We had been bending so long that our children thought that the human body was meant to have a curved back. We had whispered so long that silence became our inheritance, passed from grandmother to ...