Nigeria’s President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, was at his parliamentary diplomacy best at the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Arusha, Tanzania, on...
A few days ago, I read a post by a woman who called out all the multinationals “manufacturing” and marketing what we regard in Nigeria as...
Artificial intelligence could transform the world. But could it also destroy humans? That question has become harder to dismiss. In September, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon...
Across the country, governments spend billions of naira constructing Primary Health Care Centres in isolated, remote locations. Beautifully painted structures, commissioned with pomp and pageantry. But...
Political scientists who study presidencies have long drawn a distinction that ordinary citizens rarely notice. Alexander George’s classic work separated the “custodian-manager” from the “honest...
The January 2027 general election is months away, but the battle has already begun. Not with manifestos, not with debates on the economy, but with...
It was, in various respects, a shocker the other day, when the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) dropped the...
This piece was first written and circulated for publication in 2012. I have revisited and substantially restructured it because of developments that have occurred since...
There are moments in the life of a nation when an economic statistic ceases to be merely a statistic and becomes a warning. Nigeria may be...
“This nation’s story marks the start of a new chapter. But you all have to write the next chapter. You will write it through the...