Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Opinion

June 25, 2023

Urban legend and durable insecurity in South-East Nigeria

As the country turns the page on Muhammadu Buhari’s toxic eight years, there is an opportunity to re-think the metrics and methods by which it manages insecurity.

President Bola Tinubu and Nnamdi Kanu
June 24, 2023

Fake-authentic Igbo is IPOB’s philosophy

No society makes real progress through casteism, native ordering, and social isolation.

Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla and IPOB
June 24, 2023

Why Tinubu’s hiring and firing frenzy excites Nigerians

The demographic profiles of new appointees also help people to situate a new government’s direction and to get a sense of the identity categories it seeks to privilege or demote.

President Bola Tinubu
June 23, 2023

Buhari’s legacy puts Tinubu in tight spot

Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons.

Former president Muhammadu Buhari handing over to President Bola Tinubu
June 19, 2023

Plugging gaps in the students’ loan scheme

The law is a good start, but it needs to be saved from the surrounding ruins to be useful to students and serviceable to the schools.

University students in Nigeria used to illustrate the story
June 17, 2023

Did Kashim Shettima transform from “Boko Haram Sponsor” to Anti-Muslim Muslim?

Some Fulani herders were labelled “Boko Haram terrorists” with whom Shettima was allegedly hatching sinister designs.

Kashim Shettima
June 14, 2023

How artificial intelligence is transforming future of labour market

The permanence of AI makes it necessary to examine the opportunities and challenges it presents to the labour market.

Artificial Intelligence
June 11, 2023

Many reasons Godwin Emefiele deserves no sympathy

In a country where consequences follow malfeasance, the ousted central bank chief should have been unemployed and in prison.

Godwin Emefiele campaign posters
June 10, 2023

Why northerners don’t call Tinubu “Jagaban”

Borgu has always been a melting pot that fuses multifarious cultural influences from far-flung places.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
June 8, 2023

What does it mean to be a father today?

On this Father’s Day, for example, if you’re nice, your son might even offer you a bottle of beer! The mere thought of it would make my father turn in his grave.

Silhouette of father with daughter and son