Contributors

President Bola Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised reform at the start of his administration. Those reforms were necessary, but...

...accountability is not an optional accessory to democracy; it is its foundation. Elections are not popularity contests in which the...

On Sunday 17 May, we flew from Lagos and landed in Lome, the capital of Togo in the West African...

In 1993, the country escaped ruination by the skin of its teeth. That would have been a prohibitive price to...

Though we are in a political season with its characteristic peculiarities, governance in a complex megacity such as Lagos cannot...

With one of the largest youth populations in the world, Nigeria is a key focus for the industry and must...

  ...Nigeria has not collapsed into a full-blown dictatorship, but it is no longer functioning as a democracy either. Its...

Governance will not achieve a clean separation between family and state. The expectation is conceptually flawed. Political systems are built...

Until Nigeria begins to treat human development as infrastructure with the same seriousness we reserve for roads, oil, and finance,...

There is no provision in Nigerian law that specifically defines deepfakes, prohibits their creation for fraudulent purposes, or creates a...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu It has been three years since his assumption of office, and President Tinubu has continued on...

To put this in further perspective, what strikes me about Badejo across these contexts is his apparent ability to pitch...

Prof Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar. Professor Oloyede asked us to defer congratulations “till, if God wills, this assignment comes to...

Some families are selling their ancestral farmland to pay million of naira ransoms. (Photo illustration: Ogalah Dunamis/Premium Times) Who profits...

The distance between what Nigeria has promised its children and what it has delivered is not fate. It is a...

“There are two things you get out of being Nigerian,” he said. “You have the special skill to be adaptive...

General TY Danjuma Nigeria already knows you as a patriot, a builder, and a philanthropist. This is an opportunity to...

Nigeria’s spending of less than ₦500 per child per day investment is not a minor budget line. It captures a...

Across the developing world, and particularly in Africa, conversations about national development often revolve around the absence of infrastructure, lack...

What makes the unfolding contest particularly fascinating is that both parties appear to have chosen their candidates not merely on...

Dr Amina Salihu One thread ties the entire volume together, and it is the one announced in the title. Leading...

Perhaps because Fayemi is calm, reflective, intellectual, and measured, many people misunderstand his personality and political style. In an environment...

For those who lived through his tenure as Ekiti State governor, the cognitive dissonance was almost physically painful. His administration...

Nigeria is a country where, for every naira the government earns, more than forty-five kobo disappears into debt servicing before...

Dangote Refinery There are moments in the life of a nation when a business dispute stops being merely a business...