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REUBEN ABATI “Now that the game is on, and the race has started, what do you think we should expect?” “What game is that? Which race? The Premier League? The

There is a popular song regularly played on Radio Kaduna in the mid-1970s, when we were school boys, but which still rings in my ears. It was, “Birgediya Musa Usman!”

Before the first ballot is cast in Nigeria’s presidential elections, some things are already in plain sight — but voters and commentators often miss them because of the emotions of

with Chidi Amuta In the stormy wellspring of a torrential national discourse, something useful has emerged. Suddenly, the written word as the expression of national memory has emerged in a

BY OBINNA CHIMA  For many Nigerians, the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals may sound like another complicated transaction meant for wealthy investors, bankers and professionals

EXPRESSO BY STEVE OSUJI Just as we had in 2023, it’s a three-horse race once again. Nigeria is set for another general election with three major candidates on the ballot.

Beneath the Surface By Dakuku Peterside Anniversaries invite celebration, but consequential ones must also provoke introspection. As the Nigerian Institute of Management marks 65 years, the occasion should rise above

By Reno Omokri As an individual named the most influential investor on the African continent by Business Insider, one of the world’s preeminent business and investing journals, I encourage every

Femi falana The Mohammmadu Buhari administration enacted the National Social Investment Programme Agency Act 2022 which  transformed the  NSIPA into a statutory agency. The Act provides National Social Investment Programme

REUBEN ABATI “Brother, how now? How was your weekend?” “Basically, a weekend of shocks” “What could possibly be shocking you? Life is for the living. Live it as it comes.