The fever of state police is on. The debate has divided Nigerians. The Federal Government is not looking back on it. The passage of the bill Wednesday by the Senate has sealed matter. The Rubicon has been crossed....

A woman was asked this recently. Not gently. The question carried its own verdict, the way these questions often do, and she felt it land exactly as intended....

Ask a Nigerian business owner what they think of artificial intelligence and you will struggle to find a skeptic. Ask them what they have actually done with it, and the conversation changes quite quickly....

The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to name June 12 as Nigeria’s “Democracy Day” was motivated by self-serving politics, not principled conviction. Before he became president in 2015,...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the judiciary, the National Assembly and the security agencies are all on the radar at the moment. The thinking of many Nigerians is that these institutions must be constantly “torch-lighted” ahead of ...

This past week, I hosted a table in Nairobi....

When governments talk about securing an international loan, it often sounds like a straightforward solution: a number is announced, headlines celebrate, and citizens expect that money will quickly show up to fix roads, hospitals or the budget....

President Bola Tinubu marked his third year in office recently, on May 29. The presidency rolled out the drums, placing a front-page advert in all the national newspapers to celebrate the president’s “achievements”. The advert was audaciously titled “Prom...