The announcement by former U.S. President Donald Trump on October 31, 2025, redesignating Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act, has once again put Africa’s…
The detail makes the difference! In 1961, the regional government in Western Nigeria made tax cuts to shore up its dwindling electoral prospects, largely caused by a drop in commodity…
I had the privilege of witnessing the Ekiti APC governorship consensus ratification on October 27, 2025. At this event, 885 delegates endorsed Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, aka BAO, as the…
By Emmanuel Nwibo On November 25 and 26, 2025, the final year students of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will perform Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living…
By Isidore Isotonu Wanting to become the governor of Anambra State is a herculean responsibility. A state that basks as “The Light of the Nation” must perforce showcase its best…
Recently, Nigeria’s political and social spaces were saturated with news, rumours, propaganda, and sundry narratives of multiple complexions about a botched coup d’état. Although the military hierarchy quickly released a…
Reports that elements within the military plotted to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have thrown the nation into a swirl of fear, rumor, and urgent questions — and the response…
When Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, recently declared that Nigeria’s states, local governments, and the federal government now share “over ₦2 trillion monthly because of President Tinubu’s bold leadership,”…
The great British Rock Band, ‘The Beatles’, eulogized ‘Yesterday’ in one of its most memorable hit songs. In the lyrics of the song, the past is framed by the line,…
I was a year ahead of Temidayo Morgan Omodu at the University of Ilorin. We were from separate departments: Morgan, Mathematics Education, and I, Statistics, in the Faculty of Science.…
The allegations of contrived mayhem in the State of Ekiti are an acknowledgement that desperation has taken root in the quest to gain entrance into Oke Ayoba. This is ominous,…