Mixed Metaphors: Big Money – By Sonala Olumhense
It is time to talk about Big Money! President Tinubu signed the 2026 Appropriation Act of a massive N68.32 trillion…
Eko Hotels At 50 – By Reuben Abati
Beyond the suffocating air of Nigerian politics, which gets far more problematic by the day, with its unending twists and…
Are Nigeria’s 2027 elections already lost? – By Sonala Olumhense
Perhaps. We have heard from Senate President Godswill Akpabio many times, sometimes in strange ways, including embarrassment, such as when…
Editorial: Anti-Immigrant Xenophobia in South Africa
Africa has long traded not only in goods and borders, but in something more elusive and more valuable: a sense…
The Coalition That Became A Collision – By Reuben Abati
The most remarkable incident in Nigeria in less than a week, is all things considered how a political coalition has…
Electoral Math, Geographic Balance & Organizational Capacity: Why Obi–Kwankwaso Ticket Will Beat Tinubu in 2027
Nigeria’s opposition has, for much of the 4th Republic, resembled a crowded waiting room: full of ambition, short on coordination,…
The Sambo Dasuki List That Vanished- By Sonala Olumhense
In 2016, the presidency announced what might have been a turning point in Nigeria’s anti-corruption history: 300 companies and influential…
Insecurity – Europe needs Nigeria more than Nigeria needs Europe
West Africa’s security map has been redrawn with startling speed. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, once the reluctant pillars of…
The hoax of President Tinubu’s 2025 budget extension – By Sonala Olumhense
When President Bola Tinubu announced that Nigeria would extend the 2025 budget implementation deadline to June 30, 2026, three months…
Nigeria’s blood is on all our hands – By Sonala Olumhense
There is a moment in every national catastrophe when accounting must be done. Not later, not after the next election,…