Articles & Opinions

By Abdul Mahmud A highway is not a line drawn on a presidential map, it is a work of engineering, founded on surveys, geological investigations, hydrological evidence, environmental assessments and …

By Oscar Okhifo The Catholic Bishop of Auchi Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Gabriel Ghiakhomo Dunia, has urged Nigerians to live with the consciousness of eternity, warning that nobody knows when …

By Emmanuel Nnadozie Onwubiko Anyone who has been following international media coverage over the past week would have noticed that political parties in the United Kingdom have been busy holding …

By Prof. Mike Ozekhome, CON. There are men whose passing does not merely end a life but it interrupts a conversation that has been running for decades. On Monday, 31st …

By Abdul Mahmud The news about the Supreme Court’s decision restoring sections 77(5), 77(6), 77(7) and 84(2) of the Electoral Act 2026 which broke late last Thursday has done more …

By Ken Harries, Esq. There is a point at which political contestation ceases to be an argument about ideas and becomes an assault on the very boundaries that make civil …

By Abdul Mahmud In the foundational imaginary of Yoruba literature, the forest was never simply a collection of high-canopy trees and dense undergrowth, but rather a sacred and liminal grove …

By Jackson Ude Nyesom Wike is the 17th Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister. Since 1999, the starting block of the 4th Republic, Wike is the 8th minister of Nigeria’s fast-transforming …

By Abdul Mahmud George Orwell’s Animal Farm gives us Squealer, Napoleon’s most accomplished defender, a pig whose particular talent lies in making the indefensible sound reasonable. Whenever Napoleon changes his …

By Kelly-Daniel Oshiogwemue Nigeria’s formal political campaigns may not yet be the most visible users of generative AI. But their supporters, influencers and informal political networks are already operating in …