Category: Opinion

  There is a dangerous slogan making the rounds in Benue State today, and it is time someone in authority said so plainly: “No Alia, No Benue.” It sounds harmless enough to the untrained ear, a chant of loyalty to a sitting governor. But scratch beneath the surface and it reveals something far more troubling […]

By Niyi Akinsiju As Nigeria approaches another pivotal electoral cycle, a dangerous political habit threatens to hijack the national debate: the elevation of grievance over governance, and reaction over vision. Across political channels, conversations remain trapped in the management of short-term hardship, piecemeal subsidies, and tribal mathematics. But managing scarcity is not an economic strategy. […]

By Guest Writer  Nigeria’s markets are alive with the pulse of daily life — bargaining voices, clattering coins, and the aroma of spices. Yet beneath this vibrant commerce lies a silent emergency. It creeps into kitchens, medicine cabinets, and refrigerators, disguised as toothpaste that refuses to foam, gin that smells faintly of petrol, apples bleeding […]

By Guest Writer  Politics in Nigeria has always been a theater of drama, intrigue, and suspicion. But every so often, a remark pierces through the noise and forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about our democracy. Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the former Labour Party vice-presidential candidate who contested alongside Peter Obi in the 2023 general […]

By Prince Adeboye Omoboye As the 2027 general elections draw closer, the political leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the supporters of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu may need to urgently reflect on one critical issue: the growing feeling of abandonment among those who worked for the President’s electoral victory. Many Nigerians who identified […]

By Guest Writer  History remembers Jaja Wachuku, Nigeria’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs, for a moment that lasted only minutes but which travelled further than almost anything he said standing upright. At a United Nations meeting in 1960, barely weeks after Nigeria’s flag went up as the world body’s ninety-ninth member, Wachuku appeared to nod […]

The case for judging leadership not by the comfort it preserves, but by the institutions it builds, the difficult choices it confronts and the future it makes possible. History has an inconvenient habit of making consequential leadership clearer in retrospect than it appears in real time. Those who live through periods of reform experience disruption, […]

Let me begin with the disclosures, because a man who hides his interests forfeits the right to be believed. I am a son of Adamawa State. Atiku Abubakar is our own, and nothing I write here diminishes that. He has carried our name into rooms most of us will never enter, and for a generation […]

By Guest Writer Every nation is built not only on the shoulders of its politicians and statesmen but also on the blood and sacrifice of its soldiers. Yet, while some countries immortalize their warriors in monuments, museums, and folklore, others allow them to fade into obscurity. Iraq, for instance, turned a humble herdsman into a […]

For the second time in less than two years, Peter Obi’s convoy has been blocked in Benue State. On September 8, 2026, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) was stopped along Gboko Road near the Air Force Base in Makurdi while attempting to reach Yelwata in Guma Local Government Area. Obi’s mission […]