Nigeria’s shameful self-isolation on the AfCFTA
This seems an inauspicious time to discuss a non-election issue. But with the last-minute postponement of last Saturday’s Presidential and National...
- Thursday, June 25, 2026
BusinessDay
This seems an inauspicious time to discuss a non-election issue. But with the last-minute postponement of last Saturday’s Presidential and National...
The long-awaited E-Day is finally here. I mean Election Day, of course. Nigerians will go to the pollsthis Saturday, 16...
Muhammadu Buhari, one-time military dictator, once said that he became a “converted democrat” after seeing the collapse of the Soviet...
Nigeria faces a critical choice after this year’s general election: it must restructure its polity or suffer an existential decline....
It is now becoming clear that next month’s presidential election will be decided on a single issue: corruption. The outcome...
Political ideology or orientation means very little in Nigeria, yet no political label is more widely used than “progressives”. While...
One of the greatest misfortunes of this country is that it has never had a visionary and competent leader. Successive...
At every election, newspapers and commentators advocate “issue-based campaign”. They call for messages containing ideas that the candidates want the...
Today is 31 December, the last day of 2018 and the eve of 2019. It’s a bridge between the old...
This is the season for manifestos, a period when political parties and their candidates set out their offers to the...