AFTER every election in Nigeria—especially the contentious ones, a familiar chorus rises: “They will rig it.” “Nothing will change.” Following…
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PUBLIC activism is often dismissed as noise, hashtags that flare and fade, marches that make the evening news and then…
THERE are moments in a nation’s life when its people hear their own voices with unusual clarity. This is one…
BENEATH the surface is where the true story is. What we notice headlines, viral videos, social media mention, quarterly results…
VOTER turnout is democracy’s vital sign, and ours has been fading. Since 2007, participation has fallen from 57% to 26.7%…
THERE are moments when a country loses more than a person; it loses a compass. The passing of Dr Solomon…
TRUST is the everyday currency of democratic life. When it drains away, institutions may keep their names and seals, but…
EVERY year on 21 August, the world pauses to honour victims of terrorism. In Nigeria, that pause is never a…
THE 2027 general elections are fast approaching, and Nigeria’s political landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. New acronyms, and freshly…
ON a humid Monday morning in Abuja, the air buzzed with anticipation as Vice-President Kashim Shettima hailed “a deliberate and…
AS political season begins in Nigeria ahead of the 2027 elections, we are beginning to see another round of promises,…
WALK into almost any public school in Nigeria, and you feel the weight of history pressing down on the desks.…
FOR years, Nigerians have walked through the world with a quiet pride, knowing that their talent, resilience, and creativity were…
THE moment of revelation came unexpectedly on a high-speed train leaving Beijing, where a screen showed that 36% of the…
WHEN dawn cracks open the Nigerian sky these days, the first breath many people take is heavy with questions that…
WHEN Israel launched Operation Rising Lion in the early hours of June 13, 2025, most Nigerians were asleep. The footage…
WHEN the clouds gathered above Mokwa at the start of the 2025 rainy season, no one reached for a weather…
I STILL remember the evening I first heard the term “Japa.” It came in the form of a meme—“If you’re…
TWO years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the…
LAST week’s column took state governors to task, and the response was electric: inboxes flooded, phone lines buzzed, and hashtags…