OPINION

By Aoiri Obaigbo Forget IBB, the so-called evil genius. He should wear shorts, grab a backpack, and enroll in Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s coven. Because in the grand chessboard of Nigerian politics, Tinubu isn’t just a player, nor even a puppeteer. He’s the board, the pieces, and the rulebook. His moves…

By Gabriel Efe We are living through an age where dissent is mistaken for hostility and disagreement is treated as heresy. Across the world, but particularly in Nigeria, we have normalized a culture that punishes contrary opinions and rewards echo chambers. Cancel culture has become the new law of engagement.…

Photo: Ms Comfort Emmanson By Oghenekevwe Kofi On August 10, 2025, a flight from Uyo to Lagos became the centre of a national debate on in-flight phone use after passenger Comfort Emmanson refused to switch off her phone before takeoff. What began as a simple crew instruction spiralled into a…

Photo: Mahmood Yakubu, INEC Chair – By Augustus Adomagbo Nigeria’s democratic journey has made notable strides over the past two decades. The country has recorded the longest unbroken civil rule since 1960. This, no doubt, is worth glass clinking. Sadly, though, our electoral process remains unnecessarily cumbersome, expensive, and exclusionary.…

By Reno Omokri Dear Citizens of Nigeria, Contrary to what the ADC and Obidient online mob are telling you, President Bola Tinubu has not borrowed $20.5 billion, nor has the Senate approved for the Tinubu administration to take a loan of that amount. These individuals and the politicians and parties…

Photo: Nigeria President Bola Tinubu By O.M.O-Beecroft, Special Correspondent, Ajagbodudun, Warri North In a country where education is often touted as the ladder to success, Nigeria’s reality makes a mockery of that promise—daily, and in full glare of the world. Just recently, that painful truth was amplified yet again when…

By Augustus Adomagbo The recent visa restrictions imposed on Nigerians by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates represent more than isolated policy decisions—they are a damning indictment of Nigeria’s diplomatic collapse and a stark symbol of how far we have fallen on the global stage.…

By Gabriel Efe The recent announcement by the Lagos State Government to introduce a monthly and quarterly rent payment system is, at face value, a welcome development. After all, it is an open secret that most working-class Nigerians are suffocated by the burden of annual, sometimes even two-year, rent demands.…

By Reno Omokri Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu has completely, entirely, and paid off its debt to the International Monetary Fund, and we have been struck off the list of IMF debtor nations by the IMF itself, which confirmed this in an official release on its website, showing that Nigeria…

Photo: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, DG WTO By Gabriel Efe Human resilience is astonishing—not for its brilliance, but for its persistence in the face of constant absurdity. We weathered COVID, rewired systems on the fly, and momentarily reminded ourselves that survival demands innovation. Just when it seemed like we’d turned a…