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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

Aiyedatiwa: From Classroom Teacher to National Education Award Honouree

Yesterday, as I watched Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa receive a national award for his contribution to education, I found myself reflecting on the remarkable...

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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

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Ẹ Ò Ní Rí Ìdààmú O! (May You Never Experience Life’s Troubles!)

A good friend of mine, while going through an experience that shook him deeply, once told me that his mother's daily prayer for him...

Nigeria Must Turn 27 Years of Democracy into Tangible Gains

Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a...

Aiyedatiwa: From Classroom Teacher to National Education Award Honouree

Yesterday, as I watched Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa receive a national award for his contribution to education, I found myself reflecting on the remarkable...

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Politics without the People for the People?

             In our beloved but beleaguered Nigeria, the year 2027 has caught the fancy, imagination, and frenzied attention of the political class, the politicians,...

Beyond the Creeklines: Yenagoa offers a different story. It carries visible signs of intention

When the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board invited me to Yenagoa as a guest author and lead facilitator for its quarterly leadership dialogue, I accepted...

ADC motley crowd is not in principled defense of democracy, but a calculated attempt to weaponize rhetoric

   By Sunday Dare Even before the official commencement of the election season and before the Polls open, the “opposition”, a hurriedly stitched together contraption in...

Nigeria’s Economic Story Will Not Be Determined By Federal Policy Alone, But By The 36 States

Nigeria’s economic debate remains stubbornly fixated on Abuja, as though the country’s future can still be engineered from the centre. That assumption is no...

Ilaje That Was: The Coastline Was a Firm, Compact Earth, a Unique Blend of Clay and Sand, Strong Beneath Our Feet

Those years now feel distant but strangely vivid! Then, the coastline of Ilaje stood firm and untroubled, as though it had made a quiet...

Modern Law, Ancient Language: Nigerian Courts and Latin Maxims

  As a law student in Nigeria several years ago, I prided myself on the number of legal Latin maxims I could recite effortlessly. Ab...

Nigeria Reset: If Nigeria wants policing that earns trust, some behaviours must stop

  By AG Ahmed Police reform is one of Nigeria’s most recycled phrases. It appears after every scandal, every viral video, every tragedy that forces the...

Every four years, Utomi comes out to mount a moral high horse on who should lead Nigeria

  By Temitope Ajayi Since bursting into national consciousness, Professor Patrick Utomi has convinced himself that he is the Nigerian equivalent of Albert Einstein, Adam Smith...

All Utomi can point to as his bona fides in the civic space today are the ruins of Volkswagen, BankPHB , others

Professor Pat Utomi has once again chosen to dance naked in the public square, playing to the gallery with a familiar cocktail of grandstanding...

Inside the Black Magic Pot of Nigeria

  By Festus Adedayo A huge social dynamite recently exploded in the discourse of black magic. With the 2027 elections and early political manipulations already holding...

Nigeria Reset: Justice Delayed as a Business Model

In Nigeria, the slow pace of justice is often explained away as a structural problem, too many cases, too few judges, inadequate funding. These...

Attacks on Nigerians: Two issues are at stake here, not limited to South Africa

It is not every day that the investiture of a traditional ruler becomes a cause célèbre, but that is precisely what happened last week...