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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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…
The Richest State With the Least to Show: How Babajide Sanwo-Olu Spent Lagos Money Without Answering for It
Lagos is not a poor state. That single fact should frame every conversation about its governance, because it removes the excuse that every other administration in Nigeria reaches for first.…
When the Rains Come to Ibadan: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Understands Oyo State’s Flooding Crisis Better Than Those in Power
Ask an older resident of Ibadan about Ogunpa and watch their expression change. The name carries a memory that the city has never fully put down — of water rising…
The Flood Comes for Everyone: Why Peter Obi’s Climate and Environment Agenda Is a Survival Plan, Not a Side Issue
Every year, Nigeria performs the same ritual of surprise. The rains arrive, the rivers swell, communities from Kogi to Bayelsa disappear under brown water, and the country reacts as though…
The Most Expensive Chamber in the Land: How Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Lives Large While Nigerians Go Without
Since 2023, Nigerians have been asked to endure a great deal in the name of necessary sacrifice. Households have cut meals, pulled children out of private schools, abandoned journeys they…
Reviving the Roar: Why Oriyomi Hamzat Would Give Oyo State’s Young Athletes Something to Believe In Again
There was a time when a match day in Ibadan stopped the city. Traders shut early, buses filled, and the roar from the stadium carried across neighbourhoods that could not…
The Sound of a Bigger Economy: Why Peter Obi’s Case for Nigeria’s Creative Industries Is Serious Economics
Ask most politicians about Nigeria's creative industries and you will get a photograph. A governor beside a musician. A minister at a film premiere. Applause, a handshake, and then nothing…
A Generation Left Behind: How Bola Tinubu’s Government Failed Nigeria’s Students
Every failing government eventually leaves a mark that outlasts it. For the administration of Bola Tinubu, that mark is being carved into a generation of Nigerian students. Fees have multiplied,…
Half of Oyo’s Strength: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Commitment to Women and the Girl-Child Is the Politics the State Has Been Missing
In Oyo State, as across Nigeria, women do an enormous share of the work and hold a vanishingly small share of the power. They dominate the markets of Bodija, Oje…
A Roof Over Nigeria: Why Peter Obi’s Housing Agenda Addresses a Crisis Politicians Prefer to Ignore
There are crises in Nigeria that make headlines, and there are crises that simply grind on quietly in the lives of millions. Housing belongs firmly in the second category. Estimates…
Thirty-Four Years of Waiting: Why Atiku Abubakar’s Endless Pursuit of Power Is Itself the Disqualification
Atiku Abubakar first sought to govern Nigeria in 1993, when the average Nigerian alive today had not yet been born. He has pursued the presidency across military transitions, four republics'…
Land Without Fear: Why Oriyomi Hamzat’s Answer to Oyo State’s Omo Onile Crisis Is the Reform Nobody Else Will Touch
Ask any family in Ibadan, Ogbomoso, Oyo town or Iseyin what stands between them and owning a home, and the answer will rarely be the price of cement. It will…
Governing by the Numbers: Why Peter Obi’s Insistence on Data Sets Him Apart in a Politics Built on Guesswork
There is a moment that repeats itself in almost every Peter Obi interview. A presenter asks a broad question about the economy, or about education, or about why Nigerians are…
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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