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REUBEN ABATI President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent state visit to the United Kingdom, March 17 -19 on the invitation of King Charles III, and his wife, Queen Camilla has all

The Desk — Finance, Policy & the View from the Street By Kemi Adeosun I am, at my core, a village girl. I say this with a whole lot of

MAHMUD JEGA VIEW FROM THE GALLERY United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and your partners, this 2026 World Happiness Report which you published to mark theInternational Day of Happiness (IDH)

SIMON KOLAWOLE Anybody who knows me well will be aware of my cynicism about Nigerian politics and politicians. For the life of me, I do not believe most of our

By Okey Ikechukwu For the record, the incidents of mass killings, attacks on military installations and kidnapping stand at its peak today. It is everywhere. No one is safe anymore.

Obinna Chima Established in August 1998, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), once celebrated as the anchor of Nigeria’s democratic rebirth and a broad coalition of national interests has been enmeshed

Dialogue With Nigeria BY AKIN OSUNTOKUN “The Federal Military Government hereby decrees as follows: Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred

Beneath the Surface   By Dakuku Peterside Nigeria’s 2027 election has already begun, INEC has released the official timetable but the more consequential truth is that the country has entered the season

EXPRESSO BY STEVE OSUJI The Tick On The Scrotum: It’s a situation that begs for denouement, not prosecution or persecution at that. Nasir El-Rufai is a tick on President Bola

Olusegun Adeniyi The title of this column is adapted from the controversial memoir of Sir Bryan Sharwood Smith (1899 to 1983), easily one of the most consequential British colonial officers in