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Perverse rewards: Two nations and their victorious women’s sports teams
The past three weeks have been remarkable for sports women internationally. Women’s national sports teams were victorious in major......
Columnists
Tinubu and the North: The tale of two betrayals, one far worse!
Going by media reports, the relationship between Bola Tinubu and the northern part of Nigeria (“the North”), which gave him the presidency in 2023, is frayed and may snap in 2027....
Editor | May 12, 2025
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From monopoly to market: NNPC Ltd must break the chains of state control to succeed
The transformation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) into NNPC Limited is one of the most significant reforms in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector in decades...
Editor | May 12, 2025
Columnists
Constitutional interpretation: Fagbemi is a politically partisan attorney-general
Before he became the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice under the administration of President Bola Tinubu, Chief Lateef Fagbemi SAN was a distinguished and an accomplished lawyer....
Editor | May 06, 2025
Columnists
Nigeria’s diaspora is a great economic asset: Value it!
Two pejorative terms are used to describe the phenomenon of Nigerians emigrating to other countries. One is “japa”, a word that became so popular it has entered the Oxford English Dictionary. According to the OED,...
Editor | Apr 28, 2025
Insights
Trump’s new tariff regime and Nigeria’s opportunity to rewrite the trade script
In the ever-evolving theatre of global trade, policy decisions taken in Washington can ripple across the globe—from Wall Street to the markets of Lagos, Kano, and Port Harcourt. ...
Editor | Apr 25, 2025
Opinion
The power conundrum: Charting a new path forward
Something that is symptomatic of governance in Nigeria is the model of “kicking the can down the road”. While we can give the president credit for removing under-recovery on premium motor spirit and ending the subsidy...
Editor | Apr 25, 2025
Education
In Nigeria, rote learning rules. Critics say it’s time for change
In Nigeria, a profound paradox underscores the tension between the pursuit of formal education and its systemic failures: over 20 million school-aged children lack access to basic education...
Editor | Apr 23, 2025
Opinion
Choices, not chance: Why China is rich, and Nigeria is poor
China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive moment was Deng Xiaoping's 1978 decision...
Editor | Apr 22, 2025
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