France’s ongoing uprising is not simply a contest between demonstrators and police. It is a crisis of representation, revealing what happens when citizens believe that institutions hear their complaints only after streets become ungovernable.
Two weeks ago, this column began by arguing that Nigeria’s policy conversation – especially in the subnational – must move closer to lived reality.
In modern statecraft, health security is national security. Professor Adeyeye’s courageous exposure of these internal bottlenecks must serve as a turning point. She needs all the support and for the country to stand behind her in her quest to bring sanity.
Last week, this column began with a simple proposition: Nigeria’s public policy conversation is often conducted at the wrong altitude.
Nigeria has entered another season when politics acquires the grammar of salvation. Banners multiply, motorcades thicken, slogans become policy substitutes, and every candidate discovers that the country can be repaired overnight.
A bridge is only useful when it connects two sides of a river. If engineers complete one end while the other remains untouched, what exists is not infrastructure but symbolism.
A nation’s tax system is like a long suspension bridge stretching across a turbulent river. The steel cables represent legislation, digital infrastructure, enforcement machinery and administrative reform.
A tax system without data is like a pilot navigating through thick cloud cover without instruments.
Imagine a farmer who painstakingly installs the most sophisticated irrigation system, yet never plants a single seed.
A state’s tax system is like the circulatory system of a body; it is not the quantity of blood that ensures vitality, but the efficiency of the vessels, the strength of the heart, and the coordination of every pulse.
An open letter to the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission proposing a strategic agenda for the regulation and enforcement of political party finance as a means of curbing public sector corruption.
I started watching The Source of the River last month, seeking an evening of entertainment but finding an unexpected masterclass in human behavior, economics, and governance.
On June 26, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assented to four landmark laws that signal the boldest reconfiguration of Nigeria’s fiscal architecture since the return to democracy.
In a quietly assertive move, the Government of Kenya issued a directive on June 5, 2025, mandating all principal secretaries, heads of state corporations, and procuring entities to transition fully to an electronic procurement (e-GP) system by June 10.
Lagos, a sprawling megacity of dreams and contradictions, lives and breathes through its housing market. This market is as vibrant as it is volatile, as complex as it is crucial to the city’s economic heartbeat.
Nigeria’s economy today feels like a bike with a good rider, a decent engine, but a cracked and muddy road. The rider – our entrepreneurs and businesses – is full of energy and resolve.
There is a growing murmur in Nigeria’s business corridors – an air of restrained optimism, captured in the April 2025 edition of the NESG-Stanbic IBTC Business Confidence Monitor (BCM).
Nigeria’s economy is at a crossroads. The past year has been a whirlwind of policy adjustments, market turbulence, and shifting investor sentiment.
Simplifying bureaucratic procedures, and boosting operational efficiency could make a Nigerian adaptation of DOGE highly impactful. Such an approach could revolutionise security, bolster the economy, and improve governance.
Tax reform in Nigeria is no longer just overdue—it has become an urgent necessity. With persistent fiscal deficits, a narrow tax base, and growing economic pressures, the government’s proposed Tax Reform Bill aims to modernize the tax system, increase revenue, and stimulate economic growth.
The Northern political class must confront a stark and unavoidable reality: the economic road ahead will demand proactive efforts, strategic vision, and collective action.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is undergoing a troubling economic narrative that has taken an unexpected turn.
Social and technological advancement are inevitably intertwined for the advancement of human development.
It’s difficult for a parent not to respond when asked for ransom for a kidnapped offspring, or even relative.