Opinion

There is a question that every serious student of state decay eventually confronts, and that existing instruments only partially answer:...

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...

Few situations test the integrity of human relationships more severely than the necessity of refusal. To deny a request from...

Zuleikha Al-Shayeb She was captured by the French who, rather than treat her as a Prisoner of War (POW) in...

The political party primaries are enough reasons for concern and anxiety about the forthcoming elections. The political parties showed absolute...

President Bola Tinubu (PHOTO CREDIT: X @aonanuga1956) Respected brothers and sisters! Know that, in Islam, the renewed hope is rooted...

The defection of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC)...

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

Former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), late Ali Chiroma. Partly as a result of the tyrants’ declaration of...

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...

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

The GSM story, as cliched as it has become, still merits relevance in exploring an important fact – that the...

By shifting the focus of governance, resource control, and development from Abuja back to the regional capitals, the desperation to...

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...