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Between the 2025 Budget and Wale Edun, Who Is Ailing?
By Adeyemi Jackson
That Nigerian’s feel the pinch of the ongoing reforms of President Bola Tinubu’s administration is something that could be blamed on the shoddy implementation of the ₦54.99 trillion 2025 Budget or a total lack of it.…
Dauda Lawal: Between Leadership Award and Zamfara Reality
By Silas Ajogwu
There are moments when public honours become mirrors that doesn’t reflect virtue but to magnify dissonance. Governor Dauda Lawal’s recent acclamation as “Governor of the Year” by Leadership newspapers should, in a…
Rep Kalambaina and His Rare Parliamentary Leadership
By Idris Aminu
Among the very few names that resonate very loudly and command profound respect in the politics of the ancient Caliphate is Rep. Ahmad Abdullahi Kalambaina, the distinguished Honourable Member representing…
Ebonyi’s Jungle Politics: When Rules No Longer Matter
By Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh PhD
The colour of politics in Ebonyi State is stained by ambition. It is a brand of politics that defies logic, mocks tradition, and dismisses intellectualism. It is no longer a contest of ideas but a battle…
The People’s Power: Why 2027 Will Be About Nigeria’s Survival, Not Political Defections
By Rt. Hon. Linus Okorie, FCA
In recent days, we have witnessed a concerning narrative emerging from certain quarters of our political landscape suggesting that opposition in Nigeria has "evaporated" and that only the "insane"…
The APC 2027 Strategy and Nigeria’s Political Crossroads
By Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh PhD
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has long mastered the art of political chess, but the strategy now unfolding across Nigeria feels less like a game and more like a purge. For the first time, the power…
Umahi, Rufai Oseni, and the New Nigerian Awakening
By Rt. Hon. Linus Okorie, FCA
Context and audience are the defining ingredients of every public discourse or communication. To understand its meaning and consequence, one must situate a discourse within both. This is why the…
Dangote Refinery, Union Crises and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Economic Liberation
By Osabinu Olufemi
The unfolding crisis between the Dangote Refinery and Nigeria’s oil unions, NUPENG and PENGASSAN, deserves to be examined with sober reflection and patriotic candour. At stake is not merely a clash over unionization or…
Obidient Movement and the Birth of a New Political Order for Africa
By Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh PhD
When colonial powers withdrew from Africa, they left behind artificial borders and a borrowed illusion. Democracy. A kind of governance system hastily transplanted from Western soil arrived stripped of the…
Flagrant Disregard for Valid Court Judgements: INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu Must Be Held Accountable
By Okoro Chinedum Benedict
In 1937, at 31, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Theologian wrote a starling book ‘The Cost of Discipleship’ - clearly, the book is a theological and ethical classic that challenged German – Christians and the…