Nigeria’s 2026 budget, assented to by Bola Ahmed Tinubu with all the ceremonial gravity of statecraft, presents itself as a monumental fiscal undertaking – ₦68.32 trillion in projected expenditure, a Continue Reading
The defining image of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency will not be one of reform carefully explained or sacrifice collectively embraced. It will be remembered, instead, as a moment of Continue Reading
Nigeria’s political space is not merely shrinking – it is being deliberately constricted, engineered into a narrow corridor where dissent is tolerated only in symbolic doses and opposition is permitted Continue Reading
Nigeria is not merely borrowing – it is drifting into a new architecture of dependence, one constructed not by external colonial powers, but by internal choices that replicate the same Continue Reading
Nigeria’s political history since the return to civilian rule in 1999 has produced a curious and troubling pattern – one that is rarely acknowledged openly but is nonetheless visible to Continue Reading
If the Bases Come, the Missiles Will Follow The widening arc of confrontation between the United States and Iran has once again revealed a recurring pattern in the architecture of Continue Reading
On February 26, 2026, the opposition held a world press conference. In a healthier democracy, that would be routine. In Nigeria’s current political climate, it felt almost seismic – not Continue Reading
About ten years ago, the Nigerian public sphere went into convulsion. A poor wheelbarrow pusher known as Yunusa, alias Yellow, was accused of abducting a young girl, transporting her across Continue Reading
Let us dispense with euphemisms. The suspension of the 30 percent allocation from NNPC Limited’s profit oil and profit gas to the Frontier Exploration Fund – as explicitly provided for Continue Reading
Fifty years after General Murtala Mohammed thundered that “Africa has come of age,” Nigeria now risks advertising to the world that it has come of dependence. The distance between those Continue Reading
