Opinion

Abdullahi Yakubu Muhammad Every day, millions of Nigerians navigate a difficult reality marked by rising living costs, unemployment, insecurity, inadequate infrastructure, and limited access to quality healthcare and education. These …

The Arbiter Hassan Gimba This piece was first published in May 2022. It remains as pertinent today as it was then, given the worsening insecurity currently facing the country. In …

Ahmed Ilallah Over two decades into Nigeria’s democratic journey, Northern Nigeria has suffered profound social and economic setbacks. Rather than investing in human capital development and creating sustainable opportunities for …

There is a peculiar comfort Nigerians take in assigning blame. Insecurity is “a Northern problem.” Environmental degradation is “a Niger Delta problem.” Economic hardship is “a government problem.” Each crisis …

Iduh Onah THERE was a time when the mere hint of a nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) could send governments scrambling to the court as well as …

Olu Allen The Uncomfortable Questions the Establishment Doesn’t Want You to Ask Let me state it plainly: there is an increasingly compelling pattern that suggests a coordinated effort to ensure …

Olu Allen There is a dangerous assumption taking root in the Nigerian political psyche: that the ballot box is merely a suggestion box, and the real decision rests with the …

This is the concluding part of this write-up, originally published on April 25, 2022. Following the publication of parts one and two over the past two weeks, I have revisited …

An educationist, Dr Elechi Owhoeke, has described calls for the scrapping or suspension of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as unnecessary, saying the scheme remains a vital tool for …

Olu Allen On Tuesday, the Federal High Court in Lokoja did something that has left many lawyers and constitutional observers deeply unsettled: it set aside its own substantive judgment delivered …