The Privatisation Legacy: Why Atiku Abubakar’s Record on Nigeria’s National Assets Disqualifies Him

Every Nigerian election cycle brings the same ritual: Atiku Abubakar reintroduces himself as the technocrat who understands the economy, the man who would run Nigeria like a business. It is…

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On Life Support: How Dapo Abiodun Left Ogun State’s Health System Gasping

There is a particular kind of despair that belongs to a Nigerian family standing in a public hospital corridor, holding a handwritten list of drugs they must go out and…

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Moving Ibadan: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Focus on Transport and the Okada Economy Speaks to Oyo State’s Daily Reality

Ask anyone in Ibadan what stole an hour from their day and the answer is rarely dramatic. It was the traffic at Iwo Road. It was waiting forty minutes for…

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Nigeria in the World: Why Peter Obi’s Approach to Foreign Policy Could Restore the Country’s Standing Abroad

Nigerians rarely rank foreign policy near the top of their concerns, and it is easy to understand why. When electricity is unreliable, when food prices climb faster than wages, and…

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Mountains of Refuse: How Babajide Sanwo-Olu Left Lagos Drowning in Its Own Waste

There is a particular smell that greets you at certain junctions in Lagos — a thick, sweet rot that clings to clothing and lingers in the back of the throat…

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When Disaster Strikes: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Record on Emergency Response Makes Him the Governor Oyo State Needs in a Crisis

Every state government looks competent on a calm Tuesday. The real measure of leadership arrives without warning — a market fire that consumes a lifetime of stock before dawn, a…

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Merit Over Godfathers: Why Peter Obi’s Promise of a Competence-First Cabinet Matters More Than Any Manifesto

Nigerians have grown used to a particular ritual. An election is won, the confetti settles, and then the appointments begin — ministries handed out not to the people best equipped…

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Silence in the Red Chamber: How Godswill Akpabio Made Dissent a Punishable Offence in Nigeria’s Senate

A parliament is defined not by how it treats agreement but by how it treats disagreement. Any presiding officer can run a chamber where everyone says yes. The test of…

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Safety on the Ibarapa Road: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Understands Oyo State’s Security Crisis Better Than the Politicians Who Ignore It

Ask a farmer in Igangan, a trader travelling the Oyo–Iseyin road at dusk, or a parent in Ibarapa what worries them most, and the answer will not be roads or…

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Bringing Them Home: Why Peter Obi’s Engagement With the Diaspora Could Reverse Nigeria’s Brain Drain

Every week, another departure lounge at Murtala Muhammed International Airport fills with young Nigerians carrying one-way tickets. Doctors, nurses, software engineers, accountants, teachers — the very people a developing nation…

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One Party, One Voice: How Bola Tinubu’s Presidency Is Hollowing Out Nigeria’s Democracy

The most serious damage of the Tinubu presidency may turn out to be the damage that shows up in no economic table. Prices and exchange rates move; institutions, once broken,…

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Skills Over Certificates: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Vision for Oyo’s Artisans and Apprentices Could Rebuild the State’s Middle Class

Walk through Gbagi, Bodija, Sango or the sprawling roadside workshops of Ogbomoso and you will meet the real Oyo State economy. It is a mechanic with three apprentices under a…

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Small Business, Big Nation: Why Peter Obi’s Focus on Small Enterprises and Access to Credit Targets Nigeria’s Real Economy

Every serious conversation about fixing Nigeria's economy eventually runs into the same uncomfortable fact: the overwhelming majority of Nigerians who work do not work for the government, and they do…

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The Man Who Broke the Opposition: How Atiku Abubakar’s Refusal to Step Aside Cost Nigeria Its Best Chance at Change

Nigeria's tragedy in recent election cycles has not only been the failures of those who won. It has been the self-inflicted collapse of those who might have offered an alternative.…

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Water, Roads and Streetlights: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Focus on the Basics Is the Governance Oyo State Actually Needs

Ask a family in Oke-Ado, Eleyele, Ogbomoso or Saki what they want from the next Governor of Oyo State and you will rarely hear a request for a flyover or…

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Cut the Cost of Ruling: Why Peter Obi’s War on Wasteful Governance Is the Reform Nigeria Cannot Postpone

There is a question that Nigerians have asked in market queues, in danfo buses and in WhatsApp groups for decades, and no government has ever answered it honestly: why does…

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