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By Sheriff P. Bulus Local elections often act as a political weather forecast of future occurrences. They don’t necessarily announce the future; they give a hint. Under INEC’s revised timetable,

By Ayo Adegbite As cities grow, institutions must grow with them or governance fails by design. Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, now has an estimated population of over one

Sir: Over the past few years, the presidency has launched multiple metering initiatives, beginning with the National Mass Metering Initiative (NMMI) in October 2020. This programme was designed to end

By Ikenna Emewu I write in response to the article by Emma Anya published in The Nation on February 25, which essentially blamed Governor Ogbonna Nwifuru of Ebonyi State for

Text: “Ye shall know them by their fruits. “ – Matthew 7:16 A man once claimed to follow Jesus Christ, attending church regularly with high capacity to speak in tongues

The recent directive by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) notifying operators, contractors, and service companies in the upstream oil and gas sector that payment of the statutory

The United States’ announcement that it will deploy approximately 200 troops to Nigeria to train the country’s military reflects not only the intensifying insecurity on the ground but also the

By Victor Okeke By 2050, one in every four people on earth is projected to be African, and a massive share of that demographic explosion is happening right now within

By Lekan Olayiwola When missiles fly in the Middle-East, the shockwaves travel far beyond the Gulf states. The renewed confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran is not distant

By Ray Ekpu At the 68th Grammy Award ceremony in Los Angeles, United States, a Lifetime Achievement Award was given to a Nigerian, an African, for the first time. That

By Oumarou Sanou A dangerous precedent is emerging across Africa’s diplomatic and media landscape: the public targeting of individual journalists by foreign missions for simply asking difficult questions. The recent

By Kalu Okoronkwo As Nigeria approaches the pivotal 2027 general elections, the country confronts a danger no serious democracy should tolerate for two decades: a political system operating on outdated