Perspective

90% of lawmakers won’t survive free, fair elections — Sowore

•Omoyele Sowore   Human rights activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that 90 per cent of federal lawmakers and…

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Diplomatic Deadlock: Power play leaves Tinubu’s ambassador-designates in limbo

•Tinubu and ambassador-designates   Storms may be brewing for many of President Bola Tinubu’s recently nominated ambassadors who face the…

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The silent press and the silent siege, By Segun Adediran

Within the next several years, the invisible architecture of Nigeria’s democracy faces a quiet but existential threat. For decades, the…

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How to keep snakes away from your home [FULL LIST]

•Late Ifunanya Nwangene and a snake   An Abuja-based music talent, Ifunanya Nwangene, died on Saturday after sustaining a snakebite,…

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Top 10 African countries with largest military aircraft fleet as at January 2026

African countries are stepping up investment in aerial defence in 2026, with air power increasingly emerging as one of the…

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Neglected Tropical Diseases in Nigeria: The journey so far

Every year, World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day invites us to confront a quiet truth about health and inequality in…

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Nigeria’s 4th Republic: What is working and what is not working

In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a politician, “because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very…

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Can the US halt jihadist violence in Nigeria?

•US Presidents Trump and Tinubu   Just over a week after the United States launched strikes targeting militants in Nigeria…

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January 27, 2002 – Remembering the Ikeja bomb blasts tragedy that killed over 1000 Lagosians

If Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish inventor who instituted the prestigious global Award, the Nobel Prize, were alive on January…

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Stress, frustration fuelling our high spending on beer, Nigerians reveal 

•Beer   Some Nigerians have said they turn to beer as a way of easing frustration and coping with stress…

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