For decades, Nigeria has carried a strange contradiction — a nation blessed with abundant crude oil, yet crippled by fuel scarcity, foreign exchange troubles, and the indignity of importing what it should be producing. But that irony may soon fade into history.

Making Basic Healthcare Provision Real, by Salisu Na'inna Dambatta    With a budgetary provision of ₦1.61 trillion for the Federal Ministry of Health  and Social Welfare in the 2025 national budget, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare should be hyper-busy...

Nigeria, China, and Trump’s Warning: The Hidden War Beneath the Soil By Anngu Orngu I have followed with deep interest the debates surrounding former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s recent designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for alleged religious freedom violations. Many...

Trump's Nigeria Threat: Humanitarian Concerns or Economic Agenda? By Yusuf Bangura The article, ‘’Hypocrisy as Policy’’, by Global Geopolitics (attached) is a good reaction to Trump’s insane, but self-serving, threat to invade Nigeria under the pretext of stopping a so-called Christian genocide in that country. However,...

Tariff Isonu: When Government Becomes the Middleman of Monopoly By Oladapo Ojo In Yoruba, 'Isonu' means something that is wrong , morally off balance, but that people find hard to condemn openly. It’s the kind of wrongdoing that hides behind excuses, wrapped in official statements and...

Vincent Olatunji and the Pursuit of a Data-Safe Nigeria By Yusuf A. Yusuf As of August 2025, Nigeria had about 140 million internet subscribers, with broadband penetration nearing 49 percent, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). In such a wired nation, where personal information is...