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By Azu Ishiekwene On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known…

Sixty-five candles, yet the flame gutters in the wind, smoke curling over a nation that learned to crawl backward.…

By Uche Ugboajah As a teacher, Professor Adeniran has been, and remains, a source of inspiration to countless students—many of…

By Chinedu Agu It is no longer news that on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, I honoured the invitation by the…

By Azu Ishiekwene The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Nigeria’s lifeline from decades of rot in the petroleum downstream, has to fight…

There’s an image I can’t shake when I think of Nigeria’s young people: a baby impala dropped into the savannah,…

By Owei Lakemfa Yusuf Bala Usman, noted historian, fiery politician,  co-author of the 1977 Minority Report of the Nigerian Constitution…

I dusted off my dad’s pet name for me, Mondus, and paired it with his own name, Fidelis. Voilà, Osmund…

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu It’s crucial in this charged season that a good number of clowns in the name of…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’…