On a daily basis, the world watches Nigeria through a familiar lens in what appears to be a gory situation. Especially in cases when the news headlines tell stories of farmer-herder clashes, bandit attacks, kidnappings, villages reduced to ashes or deserted by the dwellers, as thousands of Nigerians have been displaced across states such as Zamfara ... Read more

Universities are established primarily to create, preserve and disseminate knowledge. They achieve these goals through teaching, research and community service. Yet, in many Nigerian universities today, an increasing number of academics spend more time attending meetings, processing documents, writing reports, responding to official correspondence ... Read more

Every government spokesperson eventually encounters a defining test. It is the moment when defending the administration begins to conflict with defending the truth. At that point, one question inevitably arises: does conscience still have a place in public communication? That question has become unavoidable following Daniel Bwala's claim tha ... Read more

Few countries have produced official explanations for missing public funds as astonishing as Nigeria's. Over the years, the nation has become infamous not merely for corruption but for the unbelievable stories offered to explain it. Public money, Nigerians have been told, can disappear into the belly of a snake, vanish through the appetite ... Read more

«"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." — Theodore Roosevelt» Nigeria is often described as the Giant of Africa—a nation blessed with abundant natural resources, immense human capital, and extraordinary cultural diversity. Yet despite these adva ... Read more

In February this year, the Senate Committee on Appropriations summoned the federal government's economic team and delivered a blunt verdict: the revenue assumptions behind the proposed ₦58.47 trillion 2026 budget were unrealistic, oil projections were not credible, and capital implementation in recent years had been so poor that lawmakers openl ... Read more

The Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Ondo State has spent half a decade brushing off queries from state auditors and directives from the House of Assembly, according to the newly released 2025 Auditor-General’s report — a pattern that has reignited worries about how the board handles public money. The report shows a backlog ... Read more