When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion in the early hours of 13 June 2025, most Nigerians were asleep. The footage came in fragments—precision airstrikes, sirens over Tel Aviv, defiant chants in T...
“Countries have no permanent friends or enemies but permanent interests” – Lord Palmerston, 19th-century British Prime Minister. I was aghast when I read of Nigeria poking her nose into the scuffle ...
The Nigerian government’s plan to ban solar imports is fraught with far-reaching economic and strategic contradictions. While Minister of Science and Technology Uche Nnaji’s stated goals for this ban ...
I still remember the evening I first heard the term “Japa.” It came in the form of a meme—“If you’re seeing this, pack your bags”—plastered over an image of a dusty road disappearing into a golden hor...
The greatness of Justice Lawal Uwais, JSC, can be measured by the number of high-quality judgments he left behind. Some of these landmark judgments have had a positive impact on the careers of lawyers...
Nigeria is at a critical juncture. The Tinubu administration’s recent proposal to secure an additional ₦45 trillion (approximately $24 billion) in foreign loans, outlined in the 2025 budget, has provo...
When the footage of the devastating floods in Mokwa hit my eyes, I didn’t know if to sink into grief or meditation, or rage in futility or take solace in my verses. I was hit with the sort of trepidat...
Two years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the savannah, the creeks, and the sprawling megacities since the last electoral hoopla...
Fifty years ago, the signing of the Treaty of Lagos heralded what many hoped would become Africa’s most potent force for regional integration and peace: the Economic Community of West African States (...
By 2025, Southeast Nigeria will have endured four turbulent years under the shadow of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) enforced sit-at-home orders. What began in August 2021 as a symbolic act ...