Editorial: Tinubu’s Forest Guards – A National Security Farce
In the long, blood-soaked tragedy that is Nigeria’s war against terror, President Bola Tinubu’s latest solution has arrived – not with the thunder of resolve or the force of strategic…
Editorial: JAMB,s Leadership Must Resign or Be Fired
The scandal surrounding the 2025 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination is not just an embarrassment – it is a national disgrace. What unfolded over the last few weeks…
Coming soon: Compulsory voting for APC
Mandatory voting, the idea that a citizen must cast a ballot in an election, is not new. Of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 181 members, about 20 currently practice some form of…
Editorial: Monumental Rot and Corruption in Nigeria’s Road Sector
The recent disclosure by the Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms. Patience Oniha, that Nigeria would soon be returning to the bond market to raise another N300…
Bill Gates drafts a glowing epitaph
Last week, US philanthropist Bill Gates celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Gates Foundation with a stunning announcement: he will double his charitable giving to $200 billion over the next…
Editorial: Tinubu’s Nigeria- A Rich Nation of Poor People
In a nation blessed with oil, gas, fertile land, and a youthful population brimming with potential, the current administration of President Bola Tinubu has somehow managed to perform the unthinkable:…
Editorial: Okowa and the Limits of Stomach Politics
In the annals of political treachery, few tales are as disheartening as that of “Sin-ator” Ifeanyi Okowa. Once a beacon of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he now stands as…
Editorial: Insecurity – Tinubu’s Empty Sound and Fury
Here we are again – summoned to the tired theater of presidential declarations, where the orchestra of failure plays yet another verse. President Bola Tinubu, draped in the regalia of…
Editorial: The Rotten Core of Nigeria’s Oil Sector
By any measure, Nigeria should be an economic powerhouse. Endowed with vast reserves of Bonny Light crude; one of the most prized grades of oil globally for its low sulphur…
Editorial: The 2027 Opposition Coalition Mirage
As the political clock of Nigeria inches inexorably toward February 20, 2027; precisely one year, ten months, and a day away, the murmurs of opposition defiance against the ruling All…