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China’s Leadership Playbook and Nigeria’s reality by Dakuku Peterside
China’s growing influence has forced countries, especially in Africa, to navigate a changing geopolitical and resource control landscape. How these implications unfold will...
Punch Got It Wrong On NNPC And $3 Billion Loan by Tajudeen Suleiman
In its editorial of Friday August 25 that read more like a diatribe against President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...
Coup: ECOWAS says no plan to invade Niger Republic by Paul Ejime
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) “has not declared war on the people of Niger nor is there any plan to...
Wale Edun: A bright star aloft Tinubu administration’s economic agenda
By Femi Soneye Even before the inauguration of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration on May 29, 2023, media projections had favoured Wale...
Challenging The New Ministers by Dakuku Peterside
Three recent developments are the focus of people with a keen interest in the political affairs of Nigeria at the moment. The first...
Tinubu’s war drums in Niger Republic By Dr. Bisi Olawunmi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s federal government of Nigeria is rearing to go to war in Niger Republic. Is history repeating itself? Twelve years...
ECOWAS Still Mulls High-Risk Military Option in Niger by Paul Ejime
Regional leaders ended their second emergency summit on Niger in Abuja on Thursday 10th August, by “ordering the deployment of the ECOWAS Standby...
Niger coup and geopolitics in ECOWAS region By Paul Ejime
A major decision of the July 30 emergency Summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the seven-day ultimatum, which...
Niger: Trouble In The Neighborhood by Dakuku Peterside
Niger Republic is Nigeria’s next-door neighbour. She is not the best neighbour Nigeria would desire but, as a sovereign nation, we have no...
This deity called petrol by Dakuku Peterside
To be precise from the onset, it is apt to posit that the centrality, omnipresence and ubiquitous nature of petrol in Nigeria has...
Ayu, Adamu and Nigeria’s political party system by Reuben Abati
One of the major issues begging for consideration as Nigeria and other stakeholders review the aftermath of the country’s 2023 General elections would...
Tinubu’s war against hunger, by Fredrick Nwabufo
The current challenges, which are the corollaries of a bold policy to reposition Nigeria on the track of financial sustainability, health, and growth,...
Nigeria And The Hilda Baci Syndrome by Reuben Abati
The last time Ms Hilda Effiong Bassey featured in this column was in a piece titled “Tales The Country Told Me: Hilda Baci...
Beyond Reactive governance by Dakuku Peterside
Last week, The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) issued an alert warning of the high probability of 14 states experiencing heavy rainfall that...
Ministerial Appointments: How Bill Gate’s Visit May Alter The Equation By Amos Dunia
Barring unforeseen circumstance, the anxiety over names of those that may make the list of nominees to be submitted to the Senate for...
Rescuing the Nigerian Middle Class By Dakuku Peterside
Last week, I extensively talked with a set of enterprising, upwardly mobile young men and women in Abuja. I chose to label that...
