- Thursday, June 18, 2026
BusinessDay
A disclosure first: I have not yet read General Yakubu Gowon’s newly published memoir, My Life of Duty and Allegiance....
Across much of Africa, students are taught and schools appear to be functioning, classrooms are full and examination halls remain...
Nigeria is a country that celebrates visibly and enthusiastically. Roads are commissioned with fanfare, policies are announced with optimism, and...
Nigeria is a country endowed with immense Human Resources and an unmatched intellectual elite.” This statement was made by former...
Nations do not drift into greatness. They are usually led there by organised minorities with clarity of purpose, strategic patience,...
Nigeria today appears to be experiencing one of the darkest moral and political moments of its post-independence history. Public discourse often explains...
From the gold-rich zones of Zamfara to the lithium deposits found in Nasarawa and the abundant tin and columbite across...
For decades, Nigeria could not reliably supply its own refined petroleum products domestically, even as Africa’s largest crude oil producer....
One of the biggest visions of the early Pan-Africanist movement after the independence struggles of the 1950s and 1960s was...
The latest Memorandum of Understanding between NNPC Limited and two Chinese firms to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries...
The Swiss Army knife is valued for its versatility. However, nobody would seriously consider it for complex surgery or felling...
This past weekend, British voters delivered a massive jolt to their political establishment. The local council elections witnessed the demolition of...
Nigeria’s security architecture was designed to protect lives, defend national stability, and enforce the law through multiple specialised agencies. However,...
Something is changing in Nigeria’s cities, and it is becoming harder to ignore. Across Nigerian cities, including Lagos, Abuja, Kano,...
In a 1982 diary entry for West Africa magazine, Kole Omotoso described Nigeria as a country “consuming what we do...
