How did they get here? Lecturer’s lament on academic decline
By Seun Perez Adekunle I HAVE spent over seven years teaching in secondary schools across Kaduna and Ibadan, and the last two years lecturing at the university. This means I…
Prioritising Profits Over Health: Reps On NAFDAC’s Endless Wars
By Joachim Eluchukwu SIR: In Nigeria’s cut-throat arena where corporate greed clashes with the fragile shield of public health, a damning pattern continues to emerge: powerful industries repeatedly bulldoze regulations…
The Silent Press And The Silent Siege
By Segun Adediran WITHIN the next several years, the invisible architecture of Nigeria’s democracy faces a quiet but existential threat. For decades, the local press served as the bedrock of…
2026 tax reset: What cross-border payment companies must know
By Ola Daramola AS of January 1, 2026, Nigeria’s most ambitious tax reform in decades moved from theory to execution. New laws are live, a restructured tax authority is operational,…
Online ‘Loan Sharks’: NASS, CBN, FCCPC, EFCC must save Nigerians
By Steve Omolale SUCCOUR. This is what the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Council (FCCPC) intended for ordinary Nigerians…
Invisible Looting, Visible Suffering: The Real Cost of Subsidy Removal
By Olufemi Aduwo SIR: What was sold to Nigerians as “reform” has revealed itself as something far more sinister: State-sanctioned extraction masquerading as economic policy. Consider the numbers. Between 2015…
Dangote deserves red carpet reception, thunderous applause
By Nduka Uzuakpundu IT appears eerily quiet, for now, in the petroleum sector of the Nigerian economy. The recent dust raised by the heated disagreement between the Dangote Group, headed…
Are we not all Nigerian Citizens under the Constitution?
By Ikenna Okoli, SAN Uzodimma “Uzo” Oladele Okonkwo was born in Lagos just before the onset of the Nigerian/Biafran civil war. During the civil war, his father, who was married…
The Gun Hegemony: Opadokun’s chronicle of Nigeria’s military dominance
By Felix Oboagwina Launched in Lagos on January 15, the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s first Military coup, “The Gun Hegemony”, the 428-page book by elder statesman, Ayo Opadokun, delivers a…
Religious Mob: A Personal Story From Northern Nigeria
By Adetola Odusote The painful killing of Mrs Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwaseun by Muslim extremist secondary school students in Gombe in 2007 was a tragic incident that deeply grieved me when…