Adelabu: A minister at work, by Pius Mordi
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has been in the news since his appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For a critical determinant of development as electricity is, being…
Usman’s book presentation sparks national reflection: Who truly owns Nigeria—the people or the politicians?
By Ahmad Hamisu Gwale Former Minister of Finance and one of Nigeria’s most respected economic minds, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, on Saturday presented his latest book Public Policy and Agent Interest:…
Partisan journalism as threat to democracy, by Ken Ugbechie
Partisan journalism is the reason corruption continues to thrive in Nigeria and a section of the media relapses into silence. It’s the reason elections are rigged and…
Muhammadu Buhari’s final exit, by Monday Philips Ekpe
Whichever ways the late former president’s legacies are viewed, he deserves to be left alone, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE Last Monday, a friend of mine in the United…
Peter Obi @ 64: Revisiting Obimentalism, by Valentine Obienyem
1.1 Introduction Today, July 19, 2025, marks the sixty-fourth year in the life of Mr. Peter Obi – a man whose name, with each passing season, takes deeper…
Governance over politics: The Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto example, by Abubakar Dan Ali
The massive development witnessed in Sokoto state in the last 27 months is a testament to what could be achieved when an elected first-term governor focuses on delivering the dividends…
Buhari : The Supremacy of the Heavens, by Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu
He is gone now; forbidden from the present, eclipsed in the inscrutable womb of time and space, locked in some unknown eternal permanence all mortals must invariably reside,…
The crime scene that is NNPCL, by Pius Mordi
Umaru Yar’Adua was a decent man, very decent. He believed in the innate capacity of man to do good – for himself, his family, the government and, especially…
Nigeria’s BRICS partner status and initial gains, by Tunde Rahman
President Donald Trump never ceases to amaze with his haughty and self-aggrandising governance style, endless huffing and puffing, brinkmanship, and tendency to weaponise America’s often-stated exceptionalism and unilateralism. Last weekend,…
NDDC at 25 and the gift of a Samuel, by Ken Ugbechie
And it came to pass that in January 2023, the Lord heard the cries of the people of the Niger Delta region. He gave them one of their sons, Samuel…