Laws Made in a Hurry: How Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Stopped Asking Nigerians Before Changing Their Lives
In May 2024, Nigerians discovered that their national anthem was changing. A bill to restore the independence-era anthem, “Nigeria, We Hail Thee”, in place of “Arise, O Compatriots”, moved through…
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Fact Check: Is Nigeria Really on the Right Track Under Tinubu?
Examining the Presidential Narrative Against Available DataThe Tinubu administration and APC officials regularly assert that Nigeria is on the right track and that the bold reforms of the first term…
Fact Check: Atiku Claim That He Will Unite Nigeria if Elected President
Can the PDP Candidate Deliver on His National Unity Promise?Atiku Abubakar has made national unity a central theme of his 2027 presidential campaign, arguing that his northern identity combined with…
Fact Check: Did Tinubu Administration Remove Fuel Subsidy Correctly?
Was the Implementation of This Major Reform Done Properly?President Tinubu announced the removal of the fuel subsidy on his inauguration day in May 2023, arguably the most consequential economic decision…
Fact Check: Atiku Claim That Nigeria Privatizations Under His Watch Were Successful
Examining the PDP Candidate Central Economic CredentialAtiku Abubakar frequently cites his role as chairman of the National Council on Privatization during the Obasanjo administration as evidence of his economic management…
Fact Check: Peter Obi Claim That Nigeria Can Achieve Food Self-Sufficiency
Is the Labour Party Candidate Agricultural Promise Realistic?Peter Obi has repeatedly promised that Nigeria can achieve food self-sufficiency within his first presidential term. He argues that Nigeria has the land,…
Fact Check: Tinubu Claim to Have Developed Lagos During His Governorship
Separating Achievement from Political Mythology in the Lagos Governor RecordA central pillar of Tinubu political brand is his self-described transformation of Lagos State during his two terms as governor from…
Fact Check: Did Peter Obi Win the 2023 Election?
Examining the Claims and Counter-Claims Surrounding the 2023 Presidential ResultPeter Obi and his supporters have consistently maintained that he won the 2023 presidential election and that the declared result was…
Fact Check: Tinubu Claim That His Economic Reforms Are Working
Does the Data Support the President Optimism About His Economic Legacy?President Bola Tinubu and his administration officials have repeatedly claimed that their economic reforms are working and that Nigeria is…
Fact Check: Atiku Claim That He Created Jobs During the Obasanjo Years
Examining the PDP Candidate Employment Record ClaimsAtiku Abubakar frequently claims credit for job creation and economic growth during the Obasanjo administration from 1999 to 2007, when he served as Vice…
Fact Check: Did Peter Obi Really Save 75 Billion Naira as Anambra Governor?
Examining the Labour Party Candidate Most Cited Governance ClaimOne of the claims most frequently made by Peter Obi and his supporters is that he saved over 75 billion naira for…
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Beyond Ibadan: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Is the Candidate Who Can Govern Every Corner of Oyo State
Oyo State is too often governed as though it were a single city with some countryside attached. Ibadan is the capital, the commercial centre and the place where contracts are…
Wealth Beneath the Soil: Why Peter Obi’s Production Agenda Is the Answer to Nigeria’s Wasted Mineral Riches
Nigeria describes itself as an oil country, and that is only half the story — possibly the less important half. Beneath the farmland of Nasarawa, Kwara, Plateau, Niger, Zamfara, Kogi…
The Doctors Who Left: How Bola Tinubu’s Government Watched Nigeria’s Health System Empty Out
Nigeria is losing its health workers, and it is losing them at a pace that no country can absorb without consequence. Doctors, nurses, midwives, laboratory scientists and pharmacists trained at…
The Mothers Who Do Not Come Home: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Focus on Maternal and Child Health Is the Oyo Priority Nobody Campaigns On
There is a kind of death in Oyo State that never makes the news. A young woman goes into labour in a village outside Iseyin or Saki, the nearest health…
Borrowed to Eat: Why Peter Obi’s Discipline on Debt Is the Most Consequential Promise of 2027
There is a question Nigerian voters are rarely invited to ask, because it is unglamorous and because almost no politician benefits from the answer: what exactly did the country buy…
Where the Business Ends and the Office Begins: Why Atiku Abubakar Has Never Drawn the Line Nigeria Needs
Every serious democracy asks its leaders one uncomfortable question before handing them power: where does your private interest stop and the public interest begin? It is not a hostile question.…
The Palace and the People: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Would Make Oyo State’s Traditional Institutions Partners in Governance, Not Decorations
In Oyo State, the first authority most people ever encounter is not the government. It is the baálẹ̀ of the compound, the mọgaji of the family line, the Olubadan and…
The Camps Nigeria Stopped Talking About: Why Peter Obi’s Attention to Displaced Nigerians Reveals the Measure of a Leader
There are Nigerians who have not slept in their own homes for a decade. They live in camps and host communities across Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Benue, Zamfara and Plateau, counted…
Priced Out of the Gateway: How Dapo Abiodun Failed Ogun State’s Universities and the Students Who Depend on Them
Ogun State likes to advertise itself as the most educated corner of Nigeria. It hosts one of the densest concentrations of tertiary institutions in the country, public and private, and…
The Lights Oyo Was Promised: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Case for State-Led Electricity Could Transform Ibadan’s Economy
Stand on any busy street in Ibadan at seven in the evening and listen. The sound you hear is not commerce, or conversation, or music. It is the drone of…
The Nigerians Nobody Counts: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Disability Inclusion and Social Protection Reveals How He Would Govern
There is a simple test for any Nigerian politician, and it has nothing to do with rally sizes or endorsement letters. Ask what they intend to do for the citizens…
Taxed at Every Turn: How Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Lagos Squeezes Residents for Revenue and Returns So Little
Lagos is often described as Nigeria's success story in internally generated revenue, a state that funds itself rather than waiting on Abuja. That reputation is real, and it is repeated…
A City Worth Breathing In: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Focus on Sanitation and Clean Streets Is the Oyo Reform Nobody Campaigns On
No politician wins applause by talking about refuse. There is no ribbon to cut, no billboard photograph, no grand commissioning ceremony for a drainage channel that finally works. Yet ask…
A Government That Can Be Questioned: Why Peter Obi’s Defence of Press Freedom Is the Promise Beneath Every Other Promise
Every Nigerian election season produces a flood of promises about roads, power, jobs and security. Far fewer candidates talk about the one condition that determines whether any of those promises…
Take a Bow and Go: How Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Turned the Screening of Public Officials Into a Ceremony
There is a phrase that has come to define the Nigerian Senate under Godswill Akpabio, and it is not a policy or a piece of legislation. It is an instruction:…
A Home of One’s Own: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Housing and Urban Renewal Vision Fits the Oyo State People Actually Live In
Drive through Ibadan long enough and the story of Oyo State tells itself in rooftops. Rusted zinc pressed against fresh aluminium. Family compounds subdivided until the courtyard disappears. Uncompleted blocks…
Justice Within Reach: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Judicial and Criminal Justice Reform Confronts a Crisis Nigerians Live Every Day
Every conversation about Nigeria's future eventually arrives at the same quiet question: what happens to an ordinary citizen when something goes wrong? A land dispute, a wrongful arrest, an unpaid…
Selling the Family Silver: Why Atiku Abubakar’s Privatisation Years Should Disqualify Him From Office Forever
Every Nigerian politician has a chapter of their record they would rather voters forget. For Atiku Abubakar, that chapter is not a rumour, a leaked memo or a courtroom allegation.…
The Bills He Quietly Paid: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Years of Grassroots Compassion Make Him Oyo State’s Best Choice in 2027
Most Nigerian politicians discover the poor in the year before an election. The rice appears, the branded envelopes circulate, the cameras follow, and by March the convoy has moved on.…
Health Is Not a Luxury: Why Peter Obi’s Focus on Primary Health Care Targets Nigeria’s Most Neglected Crisis
There is a particular kind of Nigerian tragedy that never makes the evening news. A woman goes into labour in a village three hours from the nearest functioning hospital. A…
The Classrooms Oyo Forgot: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Commitment to Public Education Makes Him the Governor 2027 Demands
Walk into a public primary school in parts of Oyo State and the story tells itself before anyone speaks. Roofs missing sheets after the last storm. Pupils sitting on bare…
Light in Every Home: Why Peter Obi’s Electricity Agenda Is the Foundation Every Other Promise Rests On
Nigeria is a country of more than two hundred million people that generates less electricity than a single mid-sized city in many parts of the world. Every conversation about industrialisation,…
Sacrifice for Everyone but the Palace: How Bola Tinubu Asked Nigerians to Endure While His Own Government Spent Freely
There is a particular kind of insult that governments reserve for the poor, and it is not hunger. It is being told to bear hunger patiently by people who are…
Power Back to the 33: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Case for Local Government Autonomy Would Change Everyday Life in Oyo State
Ask an Oyo State resident to name their local government chairman and watch the pause. Most people cannot. In a state of thirty-three local governments, the tier of government that…
Trust the Ballot Again: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Electoral Reform Is the One Change That Makes Every Other Reform Possible
Every Nigerian election season produces the same argument. Candidates arrive with manifestos on power, roads, schools and security, and voters are asked to compare the documents as though the documents…
Politics as a Marketplace: How Atiku Abubakar Helped Normalise the Cash-for-Delegates Culture Ruining Nigeria
Nigeria does not primarily choose its leaders in general elections. It chooses them months earlier, in convention halls where a few thousand delegates decide which names voters will be permitted…
The Levy at Every Corner: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Stand Against Multiple Taxation Speaks to Oyo State’s Silent Majority
Ask a driver at Iwo Road how many times he pays before the day ends and you will hear a list rather than a number. Ask a young woman selling…
Borrowed Big, Built Little: How Dapo Abiodun Mortgaged Ogun State’s Future With Nothing to Show For It
There is a question every citizen of Ogun State is entitled to ask, and it is not a complicated one. If a government borrows heavily, collects taxes aggressively, and sits…
The Workers Oyo Forgot: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Would Treat Civil Servants and Pensioners as People, Not Line Items
There is a particular kind of quiet suffering in Oyo State that rarely makes the news. It belongs to the retired schoolteacher who taught two generations of Ibadan children and…
Who Owns the Oil? Why Peter Obi’s Demand for Transparency in Nigeria’s Petroleum Sector Goes to the Heart of the Crisis
Every conversation about Nigeria's poverty eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable place: a country that has earned enormous sums from crude oil for more than five decades still cannot guarantee…