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Opinion

May 17, 2026

Where are Nigeria’s lawyer-statesmen?

Millions of their compatriots are better for their having been lawyers. Where can we find their ilk in Nigeria?

Lawyers
May 16, 2026

NRS leadership deserves plaudits for revenue expansion, regulatory discipline

As Nigeria continues to navigate economic uncertainties, institutions like the NRS will remain central to fiscal stability and sustainable growth.

Zacch Adedeji
May 14, 2026

What’s the fuss about Peter Obi’s defection to NDC?

In Nigeria, political parties are built around power, personalities, and access to public resources.

Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and President Bola Tinubu
May 11, 2026

As large-scale judicial corruption threatens to destroy Nigeria 

The Nigerian republic does not merely need judges learned in law; it needs judges incapable of being purchased by political vanity.

Supreme Court and Federal High Court
May 10, 2026

Nigeria: The rise of judicial verdict without judgment

This phenomenon of judicial verdict without judgment creates damage and feeds confusion in many ways.

JUDGES IN RIVERS
May 7, 2026

Who is after Obi, Kwankwaso again?

Who is chasing Obi and his new soulmate, former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso? There are three possible answers.

Peter Obi
May 7, 2026

Nigerian banks show stronger outlook amid crucial loan clean-up, dividend pause

Analysts were unanimous that short-term shareholder unease over a pause in dividend payouts would translate into higher returns in the period ahead.

CBN and First Bank
May 6, 2026

Serving APC, leading PDP is Wike’s brand of opposition politics

Nigerians have come to realise that the country’s political space is full of politicians desperate to keep their snouts perpetually in the public trough.

Wike, APC & PDP logo
May 4, 2026

Why Bola Tinubu’s political savagery is different

To frame President Tinubu as uniquely anti-democratic in Nigeria’s history is not to deny the flaws of those who came before him.

President Bola Tinubu
May 4, 2026

Tinubu-Ruto banter as food for thought

Ruto and Tinubu must brace for the messy, difficult task of fixing their countries’ economies, a task that is not a respecter of fine language.

Kenya President Williams Ruto and President-elect Bola Tinubu ahead