Opinion & Interviews

When a great power promises to come “fast, swift and vicious” intoanother country, the language is cinematic — and chilling. That isprecisely the tone that has shaken public life in Abuja and Washingtonafter President Donald Trump told the…

Six years after retirement, Prof Catherine Ikodiya Oreh has been inducted as a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE), the highest educational body in the country and the second most prestigious academy in Nigeria after the…

There has been a cacophony of voices in response to the threat by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to commence a military action in Nigeria should the Nigerian government continue to fail to rein in terrorists killing…

Public activism is often dismissed as noise—hashtags that flare and fade, marches that make the evening news and then dissolve. But when citizens stay with the work beyond the first spark, activism becomes a disciplined insistence that…

It takes an outsider to say what we already know but refuse to admit. Many Nigerians woke up this morning to learn that Donald Trump, the US president, has designated Nigeria as a “country of concern.” Many in Abuja wailed about foreign…

In Andoni, a new road is emerging from the swamps, cutting through mangroves and waterways, stretching steadily toward the Atlantic Ocean. The 13.52-kilometer Ngo–Atlantic–Oyorokoto Road is far more than an engineering project; it is a…

I have always been fascinated by Ekiti and Ondo states for some strange reasons. Those states have bred some prominent persons who are stubborn to their principles and uncompromising to a fault. When I remember the late Chief Gani…

"The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you. - Rick Warren Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.-John…

Anna Husseini Pai, a native of Kwali in the Federal Capital Territory, is a dynamic professional, development advocate, and lifelong learner with a deep commitment to education, leadership, and sustainable development. As the Founder of…

The recent opinion article titled “The Nnamdi Kanu Affair,” published in The Nation on 26 October 2025 under the pseudonym Palladium, raises significant ethical questions about how ongoing judicial proceedings are represented in the media.…