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Echoes of Trauma: The cost of never saying no

By Lillian Okenwa Sometimes, the people who complain most about what we stopped giving are the very people we spent years teaching to expect everything. There...

Tinubu Has Spent 261 Days Abroad, 52 Trips, N37.6bn—Enough to Build Roads, Hospitals and Schools Across Nigeria

By West Africa Weekly President Bola Tinubu departed Abuja on Sunday for a three-week vacation in Europe, his 52nd foreign trip since assuming office on...

Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Gamble: Nigerians Paid The Price, Now Atiku Offers A Way

Nigeria does not need a return to the corrupt subsidy regime of the past. It needs a production-based subsidy that puts Nigerian refineries, Nigerian...

Meet the Sultan Who Allegedly Financed Terror, Locked Nigeria as an Islamic State, and Gave Virtually All of Nigeria’s GDP to Fund Global Jihad

Ibrahim Dasuki spent ten years chairing a branch of the most notorious terror-financing bank in modern history. Then he took the throne. Then he...

MY RESPONSE TO Mallam Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed OVER MY COMMENTS ON EX-NIGERIAN MILITARY DICTATOR IBRAHIM BADAMOSI BABANGIDA AT 85: COMPASSION DOES NOT REQUIRE HISTORICAL...

By Omoyele Sowore Dear Datti Baba-Ahmed, Yesterday, at the National Peace Committee event, I met Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Datti Baba-Ahmed’s elder brother and PRP chairman. I...

A Burial, an Inner Voice, And True Safety

By Alifa Daniel in Abuja Safety Is of the Lord About sixteen years ago, I learned a lesson about divine protection in a way I have...

Echoes of Trauma: When hope refuses to leave

By Lillian Okenwa Some people are not tired of hoping. They are tired of having to hope for so long. They have watched opportunities come close...

Rejecting The Politicisation of Religion: A Middle-belt Response to Sheik Yahya Jingir’s Divisive Comments

By Adakole Ijogi The recent comments by Islamic cleric, Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, at a gathering in Kano where he called on Muslims to support...

The Paradox of the Underpaid Nigerian Health Worker: Are 55,000 Doctors Actually Multimillionaires or Even Billionaires?

By Agbor Neji Ebuta MD Let me begin with a few provocative hypotheses. Most Nigerian doctors may, in economic terms, be multimillionaires—based on the value of...

Nigeria has been captured by bushmen – and this must end

By Kio Amachree This week, Nyesom Wike stood before the cameras in Abuja and told 200 million Nigerians that Bola Tinubu is "the only person...

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