Nigeria Elections
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…