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Curiously, many presidential aspirants seeking to replace Tinubu are not openly campaigning to reverse the central pillars of his reforms....

Terrorism is, at bottom, a test of whether a society will hold together or come apart. The men who behead...

kidnapping Nigeria's contemporary experience presents a troubling illustration of this profoundly disheartening phenomenon. As electoral cycles draw nearer, public anxiety...

President William Ruto. Picture credit: Bas Czerwinski/AP This week’s protests in Kenya, directed at the controversial plan by the United...

President Bola Tinubu with the service chiefs Like Obasanjo, President Tinubu cannot promise to give Nigeria everything, but he can...

The late Rotimi Akeredolu, former governor of Ondo state, in Amotekun regalia. Criminality should never be reduced to partisan talking...

The executive governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Sanwo-Olu noted that despite occupying a relatively small landmass within Nigeria, Lagos has...

On Friday, 15 May, Nigeria witnessed something unprecedented: coordinated school abductions carried out simultaneously in the Southwest and the North-East....

Despite a huge fan base, from Southern Africa to Taiwan and the United States, Mswati’s record on human rights is...

The Shenzhen experience ultimately demonstrates that industrial transformation is not accidental. It requires deliberate planning, sustained infrastructure investment and a...

Let us imagine that the opposition parties will boycott the forthcoming elections scheduled for next year. How will such a...

During this year’s World Nutrition Day last week, we were reminded to reinvigorate our concerted efforts to tackle the burden...

He gave the world eyes that never close. And we, who live in an age of too much seeing and...

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...