NORTHERN NIGERIA- A TRAGEDY OF ABDICATION
Northern Nigeria is fast approaching the status of a basket case – if, indeed, it has not already arrived at that grim destination. This is not an emotional exaggeration, nor Continue Reading
Nigeria’s Poverty Crisis Is Not an Accident — It Is a Policy Choice
The new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that 62 per cent of Nigerians will be living in poverty by 2026. To the detached observer this may read like another sterile economic Continue Reading
Nigeria’s Trillion-Naira Question: Who Took the Future Away?
By any honest measure, Nigeria has never seen the kind of money that has flowed through the federal system since 2023. Trillions upon trillions – ₦47.39 trillion in taxes, over Continue Reading
The Arrogance of Power and the Poverty of Choice in Nigerian Politics
There was a time when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was so dominant, so expansive in its reach, that its leaders openly boasted they would rule Nigeria for sixty uninterrupted Continue Reading
Concrete for the Coast, Austerity for the People
There are moments in a nation’s life when budget lines cease to be technical matters and become moral documents. Nigeria has reached such a moment. The federal government’s decision to Continue Reading
Maiduguri Bombing and the Peril of Incendiary Headlines
On December 24, 2025, a bomb blast in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, claimed the lives of several Muslim worshippers. The explosion occurred in a Muslim community inside a Continue Reading
Forged Laws, Fading Norms, and the Burden of Leadership Accountability
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous democracy, stands at a critical juncture. The recent controversy over the post-passage alteration of the Tax Law has laid bare not merely a procedural lapse, but Continue Reading
Tinubu, Elite Impunity, and Nigeria’s Democratic Dilemma
Nigeria’s democratic experience is not merely an institutional transition from military rule to civilian governance, but an ongoing ideological struggle over the very meaning of democracy itself. The façade of Continue Reading
The Arewa Consultative Forum at 25: Unfurling the Map to a New North
A quarter of a century: for some, the measure of a single heartbeat in a nation’s long journey; for others, the slow unwinding of decades filled with change, hope, and Continue Reading
Rethinking Northern Nigeria’s Socio-Political Crisis
When examining the socio-economic and political landscape of northern Nigeria, it has become all too common – myself included – to lay the entirety of the blame at the feet Continue Reading