2026: The enigma year for which the Soothsayers lost their compass
The end-of-year soothsayer, that perennial fixture of December: prophets, star-gazers and forecasters, fell conspicuously silent as 2025 drew to a...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
The end-of-year soothsayer, that perennial fixture of December: prophets, star-gazers and forecasters, fell conspicuously silent as 2025 drew to a...
We live in an age where everything glitters: gigantic, gaudy and loud. Even the Christian faith, once marked by simplicity,...
On December 16, the United States finally implemented its June warning by placing Nigeria on its travel ban list, confirming...
In classical terms, a modern state exists because it “successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force”...
A former NLNG chief, Chima Ibeneche, once captured the contradiction deftly when he said Nigeria produced “world-class journalists” (the likes...
If Nigeria were a nation of one tribe and one religion, what would Nigeria be like? It would be a...
In much of Africa, the dominant frameworks for democracy, economics, and governance resemble hand-me-down clothes, like ill-fitting garments borrowed from...
Abuja’s foreign policy response to American criticism over Christian persecution exemplifies how not to manage great power relations in a...
Nigeria’s response to international criticism over the persecution of Christians, led by the US Senator Ted Cruz, has devolved into...
Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan steps into perhaps Nigeria’s most precarious institutional role at a moment when electoral leadership has become...