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.

By Max Amuchie

There is a kind of fear that does not announce itself with gunfire. It does not arrive on motorcycles or through midnight phone calls demanding ransom. It settles quietly, reshaping how people think, what they believe, and even what they dare to hope for. This is the fear that outlives the bullet.

By Enyinnaya Appolos

A credible election begins with a credible register. Without it, every other effort, no matter how well-intentioned, rests on a faulty foundation. Therefore, every democracy that seeks to endure, credibility is not optional, it is foundational.

By Azu Ishiekwene

In many parts of the country, the rains poured down earlier in the week, bringing much physical and psychological relief from the searing heat. The absence of electricity from public supply channels made it worse. Average daytime temperatures throughout March ranged from 33 degrees to 38 degrees centigrade in Lagos and Abuja, respectively.

By Femi Malik

Over a week ago, the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, issued an internal signal that was initially misinterpreted by a section of the Nigerian media as a directive proscribing notable police tactical squads across the country.

By Steve Osuji

APC'S Extended Insomnia: It becomes obvious each day that Mr Peter Obi is the abiding nightmare of the ruling party.

By Bola Bolawole

Karl Marx, the man who taught the world the Marxist ideology and after whom it was named, described religion as the opium (or opiate) of the people. His exact words, in his 1844 work titled “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”, goes thus: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Once celebrated as Nigeria’s premier indigenous university, UNN had, over the years, become weighed down by deteriorating infrastructure, administrative inertia, weakened governance systems, and strained relations with its host communities, despite the efforts of over past fifteen Vice Chancellors. This was the reality which Professor Simon Uchenna Ortuanya inherited when he assumed office on August 11, 2025, as the 16th Vice Chancellor of his Alma mater.

By Max Auchie

There is a different kind of silence in the countryside. It is not the anxious quiet of a ringing phone, but the heavy stillness of abandoned farmlands. Crops rot where they were planted. Footpaths disappear into overgrowth. Entire communities live with one eye open—not listening for a call, but for the distant echo of motorcycles approaching.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“It’s looking like many horses will run in the 2027 presidential race”

“And who are the horses?”

“The incumbent is one of them…”

“God willing!”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t put anything beyond God. That is why economists say ceteris paribus”