* Corruption Is The Insurgent Within—Quiet, Persistent, And Deadly

By Senator Babafemi Ojudu

In less than six months, Nigeria has lost two generals on the battlefield—cut down in operations against what should, by all conventional reckoning, be a ragtag insurgent force. Alongside them, several colonels, officers, and countless other ranks have paid the ultimate price.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Growing up, there was a nonfictional ballad story often told in our village. It goes that in the heydays of history in our land, there was a masquerade (Igele, which is one of the revered masked spirits in Obollo land), that fell in the marketplace during an Omabe festive outing. In our culture, like in many other native African settings, a fallen masquerade loses its mystique; the illusion is broken, and the man beneath the mask is exposed. Yet, in defiance of shame, the same masquerade returned the next market day, dancing even harder, as though the people had forgotten. But the elders, watching quietly, shook their heads and said, “A masquerade that has been unmasked dances only for itself.”

By Chuka Nnabuife

“Instead of giving a man fish, teach him how to fish.” That enduring idea sits at the heart of Anambra State’s social safety strategy, especially under the Solution Government of Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo. The aim is clear: move people beyond palliatives and into lasting prosperity — turning need into capacity, and capacity into wealth. History shows that societies which invest in people’s abilities, rather than short-term relief, make deeper and more durable progress.

By Abubakar Usman

What is the message when a citizen’s petition to such an important body remains at preliminary evaluation stage after a year, during which the judge concerned was unresponsive for nine months?

By Bola Bolawole

Prussian war strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, defines war as the continuation of politics by other means. In other words, when diplomacy fails, nations resort to war to achieve the same objectives they had set out to achieve with diplomacy. Thus, war is not an end in itself but a means to an end. And like Niccolo Machiavelli posits in his political treatise, The Prince, the end justifies the means. Once the end or objective is achieved, then, the loss, destruction, dislocation, and terrible suffering that war brings become justified.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“I am proud of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria…”

By Max Amuchie

A nation does not collapse all at once. It erodes—layer by layer, system by system—until what once appeared unshakable begins to give way under the weight of forces it can no longer contain.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“I am proud of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria…”

“Which senate are you talking about - our rubber-stamp senate or the senate of the Republic of somewhere else?”

By Steve Osuji

The president and his party are obviously in a frenzy. The next election in 2027 seems like a last battle for them. The passcode in the country today which gives them away is 'support Tinubu.' It's as if the president is an invalid on crutches needing support. No official speech ends without a word for President Tinubu; every government activity dovetails into a subtle campaign for reelection of President Bola Tinubu. The desperation, or shall we say, trepidation, by the ruling party over the 2027 general elections is so intense one wonders if anything else is attended to by this government.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

In a small riverside community, there is a story often told of a young boatman who inherited a vessel already battered by years of neglect. The elders warned him: “This river is not kind to the unprepared.” But what they did not tell him was that the real danger lay not in the river’s turbulence, but in the constant voices from the shore; critics shouting conflicting directions, skeptics predicting failure, and rivals hoping the current would consume him. The young man, however, chose a different path. He listened, but he did not waver. With steady hands and quiet resolve, he navigated the storm, and, in time, the same voices that once doubted him fell silent as the boat glided into calmer waters.

By Azu Ishiekwene

There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of a colonial past, that make the courtroom forbidding. It is the language, especially Latin, that often turns justice into an elaborate puzzle, hiding meaning in plain sight.

By Segun Adediran

For those who studied Economics at the Ordinary Level in the 1970s, the name O.A. Lawal likely rings a bell. His seminal work, O' Level Economics of West Africa, outlines the four pillars of production—land, labour, capital, and enterprise—as the essential resources for creating value.