Every nation eventually reaches a point where silence stops being prudence and becomes complicity. There are moments when patience can...

Trust will not return through slogans. It will not return because a new chairman has been appointed. It will not...

This is the civilian coup at the heart of Nigeria’s party politics. It does not announce itself with soldiers, decrees,...

Katsina State on map Can Nigeria’s states become true engines of development, or are they condemned to remain administrative outposts...

Beyond the creeklines, I saw evidence that resilient leadership does more than survive chaos. It reorganises it. It turns difficult...

...“attempt to delete democracy” is not an exaggeration. Democracy can be erased without being formally abolished. A party does not...

On the evening of 16 March, as families in Maiduguri prepared to eat their evening meal, a series of coordinated...

The tell-tale signs, then, are not mysterious. They are visible long before the explosion. They appear when politicians begin to...

...the lesson is not to imitate Trump’s temperament or import authoritarian instincts. The lesson is to borrow discipline: the form...

A democracy rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned — clause by clause —...

Last week, I shared a travelogue describing my visit to Taraba State, where distance is measured not in kilometres but...

President Tinubu That night, as the celebration went on, I noticed the same thing happening: people kept bringing up Venezuela,...

A society does not collapse only when guns are louder than laws. It also weakens when citizens begin to suspect...

Nigeria must choose what it is really facing: isolated criminals or a parallel economy protected by armed groups and political...

More boots on the ground may quieten violence in the short term. But the peace Nigerians long for will only...

After every election in Nigeria — especially the contentious ones — a familiar chorus rises: "They will rig it." "Nothing...

A democracy grows stronger as its citizens grow wiser and participate actively. Instead of getting angry, we should watch closely...

  There are moments in a nation's life when its people hear their own voices with unusual clarity. This is...

Beneath the surface is where the true story is. What we notice — headlines, viral videos, social media mention, quarterly...

Voter turnout is democracy's vital sign, and ours has been fading. Since 2007, participation has fallen from 57 per cent...

The late former Chairman of the Police Service Commission Chairman and former IGP, Solomon Arase. There are moments when a...

If we can make taxes visibly become services, make justice measurably quicker and fairer, and make wrongdoing reliably expensive, trust...

Every year on 21 August, the world pauses to honour victims of terrorism. In Nigeria, that pause is never a...

Democracy is a contest of ideas, discipline, and trust. If the 2027 rush is allowed to run unchecked, we will...

For Nigeria, BRIDGE presents an opportunity to create its own success story. If the planned US$10 billion diaspora fund is...