THE 2027 general elections are fast approaching, and Nigeria’s political landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. New acronyms, and freshly…
Browsing: Dakuku Peterside Column
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…
THE halfway mark of any journey invites a reckoning, and politics is no exception. In mature liberal democracies, the reckoning…
WHEN the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, better known as NELFUND, was unveiled, it landed like a spark in a dry…
THE world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay,…
CHINA and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite…
RIVERS State is currently facing a pressing and time-sensitive threat. The oil-rich state has come under intense political scrutiny following…
THE appointment of a new leadership team at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has sparked fresh hope.…
TENSIONS between Nigeria’s central and state governments have long been the fault lines of its federal system; it is like…
IN his book “The Power of Regrets”, Daniel Pink explores how retrospection can be a powerful tool for growth and…