Opinion & Interviews

“Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a hundred times.”– Mark Twain with a hard truth on addiction recovery. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a…

President Bola Tinubu’s body language, very evidently, is sending frills and jitters to sections of his party faithful in Kogi State. Those who know Tinubu well know that he is not given to garrulity, or verbal frivolities. Say all you…

"There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or…

The Governor of the Central Bank, Mr Olayemi Cardoso, led the Nigerian delegation to this year’s IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington, DC, United States. In this chat with journalists, he spoke about the key takeaways for Nigeria from…

In July this year, when Atiku Abubakar, a two-time presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), officially resigned from the party, I was one of those who thought the former ruling party had officially collapsed. Atiku,…

To start with, taxing citizens responsibly entails a social compact where governments fund essential services like education, healthcare, agriculture, defense and infrastructure in exchange for mandatory tax contributions. However, a…

In the last few days, a group that calls itself the Abia APC Renaissance Group attempted to stir public sentiment with a publication riddled with inaccuracies, conjecture, and a painful lack of understanding of how multilateral financing…

A journalist named Tega Oghenedoro, popularly known as Fejiro Oliver, has been remanded in Ogwashi-Uku prison in Delta state after more than three weeks in illegal detention. His crime was that "between the months of August and July, 2025,…

Beneath the surface is where the true story is. What we notice—headlines, viral videos, social media mention, quarterly results—is just the small visible part. Below the surface are the deeper forces: motivations, systems, identities, and…

Across Africa, in the pantheon of Pan-African heroes, the story of liberation is never written in ink but in courage. Nelson Mandela’s steadfast walk, Kwame Nkrumah’s clarion call for independence, Patrice Lumumba’s fearless truth in…