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By Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe as Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on December 7, 2023, the Board has increasingly positioned Nigerian Content as an important instrument for advancing the Federal Government’s economic reform agenda. Ogbe’s appointment came at a period when […]

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By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA Years after Sir Mike Mbama Okiro served as Commissioner of Police in Lagos State and later rose to become Inspector-General of Police, a quiet but telling symbol of institutional neglect stands along some of the city’s streets and junctions. The police information boxes he introduced during his tenure as Lagos CP — […]

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By Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere, but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in build and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide. There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when […]

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By Zubairu Usman Sadiq  To the extent that an average Nigerian finds it difficult to meet the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, health and protection, and the three core values of development; sustenance, self-esteem and freedom, development is still a mirage to us as a people and as a country, for how can one […]

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By Saka Ola Ahmed The death of 37 suspected illegal miners while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Minna, Niger State has thrown the nation into grief. Outrage has rightly been expressed by Nigerians who called for an urgent probe of the unfortunate incident. Recall 37 out of […]

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By Wole Adeshina In the chambers of the 10th Senate, legislative representation is measured by concrete outputs: bills sponsored, motions raised, and physical development brought directly to constituents.  On these metrics, Senator Benson Agadaga has established himself as one of the most active lawmakers representing the South-South region. Key Sponsored Bills and Motions Border Communities […]

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By JOHN ONWE This essay is inspired by a cartoon by a journalist called “Sergo”, published in the Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki’s newspaper, called Advocate, on page 4. The cartoon has an image named “Obi” standing in the centre of a group of four men who were labelled variously as “Presidency”, “EFCC”, the “Police” and […]

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By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA In the early hours of 17 September 2026, a grim discovery was made in Minna, capital of Nigeria’s mineral-rich Niger State. Thirty-seven young men and boys, arrested days earlier on suspicion of illegal mining, were found dead in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). Many of the […]

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By Gogi Serikoromo Purely in a historically anticipatory celebration of scholarship, friendship, Tompology, and Dr. Enewaridideke Ekanpou’s books, Tompolo’s Haulers and Hailers and The Wanted Man in Camp Four, the exceptionally gifted Ijaw highlife musician JKing Dr. Izonebi Alfred has once again emerged in public discourse. This emergence in public discourse is foregrounded by the […]

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