Nigeria: 730 Days Later
Two years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled...
Gatekeepers Or Spectators? National Assembly’s Two-Year Performance Gap
Last week’s column took state governors to task, and the response was electric: inboxes flooded, phone lines buzzed,...
₦47trn Later: A Mid-term Reality Check For State Power
The halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies,...
Can An American Pope Speak To Nigerian Realities?
When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had...
NELFUND: Against A Culture Of Impunity
When the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, better known as NELFUND, was unveiled, it landed like a spark in...
A Pope’s Funeral And New Leadership Paradigm
The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden...
Choices, Not Chance: Why China Is Rich, And Nigeria Is Poor
China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since...
Rivers: A Ticking Time Bomb
Rivers State is currently facing a pressing and time-sensitive threat. The oil-rich state has come under intense political...
NNPC Leadership: Agenda For Faltering Oil Giant
The appointment of a new leadership team at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has sparked...
Governors, Federalism, And Constitutional Tension
Tensions between Nigeria’s central and state governments have long been the fault lines of its federal system; it...
