Salary increases in Nigeria have been outpaced by rising prices, and for many workers, the pay increases have looked good on paper but have quickly disappeared in real life. Inflation continues to out...
The largest oil producer in Africa keeps creating sovereign wealth funds and starving them. The outcome is a fiscal architecture that appears sophisticated on paper but collapses under the strain of p...
To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Vice President, the Governors of the 36 States, the Federal Executive Council, the Members of the National Assembly, the State Houses of Assemb...
In July 2019, the Nigerian government announced a landmark electricity deal with German industrial giant Siemens. It was the aftermath of an Abuja meeting between former President Muhammadu Buhari an...
There is a peculiar ritual in Nigerian politics that has quietly become the defining feature of our democracy, or what remains of it. A governor serves two terms, builds a political war chest, appoint...
On May 7, 2026, I had the privilege of listening to and participating in a News Central TV Town Hall on the troubling question of why violent attacks continue to persist in Plateau State and the wider...
The promise of the “African Century” is currently facing its most gruelling test as the continent grapples with a youth unemployment surge that threatens to turn a demographic dividend into a disaster...
Ghana has formally asked the African Union to put xenophobic attacks against African nationals in South Africa on the agenda of its mid-year coordination meeting in El Alamein next month, a diplomatic...
There is a cruel irony at the heart of African politics. The continent that birthed humanity now borrows its governing philosophy from those who, not long ago, used philosophy as a weapon against it. ...
When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for its quarterly leadership dialogue, I accepted without hesitation. There was ...