The true state of relations between two countries is not always found in presidential speeches, diplomatic communiqués or trade statistics. Sometimes, you find it in the frightened voice of a mother t...
“Drill Baby Drill” is more than an audacious label. By putting Africa’s energy-access argument on bottles of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, the African Energy Chamber is inserting a development challenge ...
Figures from the United Nations (UN) show Ukraine’s civilian toll is rising, highlighting the human cost of a world becoming numb to war. In July, 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 injured in Ukrain...
Adeleke’s 66,252-vote win shows South West loyalty must now be earned, and a 31-state party structure cannot deliver it. On August 15, Governor Ademola Adeleke won re-election in Osun by 511,067 votes...
There are some mistakes that last only as long as the laughter that follows them. You say the wrong thing at dinner, everybody laughs, you laugh too, and by dessert nobody remembers. Then there are mi...
One hundred and fifty‑two days after President Bola Tinubu signed a £746 million ports financing deal with the United Kingdom at Windsor Castle, neither government has disclosed the terms of the agree...
In May, Moniepoint’s chief executive, Tosin Eniolorunda, told an audience at The Platform in Lagos that his company had 500 open roles it could not fill. Not because Nigeria has no graduates, but beca...
Behind the fight over conference dates lies a much larger contest over energy poverty, climate policy, investment and whether Africa will determine its own path to industrialisation. The dispute betwe...
South African president’s unusually blunt warning against intimidation of foreign Africans raises the pressure on authorities to prove that continental solidarity will extend beyond speeches when dele...
Osun State has always been one of Nigeria’s most politically restless states, the one Yoruba territory that refuses to fall in line with whichever party controls Abuja. That reputation is being tested...