ACROSS Nigeria, 2025 is being remembered as a year where citizens fought inflation, dodged insecurity, and questioned democracy’s humanity, but still looked ahead to 2026 with cautious hope. In Owerri, trader and community voice Chinonso Nze said 2025 delivered the worst of both economic and security crises. He linked surging inflation to shrinking purchasing power, […]
Colonialism and the Cognitive Reprogramming of Worship THE editorial premise begins not in theology but in history. Colonialism’s most enduring conquest was not territorial but psychological. By replacing indigenous systems of governance, spirituality, education, and epistemology, the colonial project engineered a generational dislocation—teaching colonized societies to distrust self-derived knowledge while elevating foreign frameworks as superior, […]
Domestic Debate Over U.S. Airstrikes Intensifies Gumi Reacts to U.S. Military ActionFOLLOWING airstrikes by the United States military on Islamist militants in Nigeria on 25 December, Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has called on the Federal Government to end cooperation with U.S. forces. In a detailed statement shared on Friday, Gumi cautioned that foreign military […]
Anioma State Quest: Ethnicity, Power Mapping and the Battle for Narrative THE call for Anioma State has resurfaced as one of the most politically loaded sub-national movements in Nigeria’s South-South, forcing a necessary interrogation of identity, ancestry, and geopolitical calculation. What began decades ago as a development-driven demand has increasingly mutated into a struggle over […]
Myth vs History: Who “Discovered” Nigeria’s Oil? NIGERIA’S oil story is often told as a dramatic 1956 revelation by foreign geologists. This simplified retelling omits a critical truth: petroleum was seen, used, and referenced locally long before colonial commercial interest began, and its political consequences—benefits, exclusions, and structural inequalities—were shaped far from the communities where […]
Tax as a Model of Governance: Lessons Nigeria Refuses to Study THE evidence is overwhelming: nations that build governance around taxation build nations that work. Yet Nigeria continues to debate whether tax should be paid at all — a conversation most of the world resolved decades ago. In Scandinavia, taxation is not merely a fiscal […]
Privilege Travels Faster Than Policy THE editorial opens with a sociological autopsy: policies change faster than social conditioning. In many African public institutions, whiteness still functions as a first-response authority, overriding merit sequencing. The writer’s words are heard before they are weighed because privilege travels as historical inertia, not personal choice. The Merit Illusion of […]
THE SYSTEM ON TRIAL When the Regulator Becomes the Obstacle NIGERIA’S petroleum crisis no longer hides behind excuses. The resignation of the chief executives of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has forced the country to confront an uncomfortable truth: the institutions designed to […]
BY AUSTIN ORETTE THE July 6, 1967, operation at Gakem near Ogoja, in present-day Cross River State, Nigeria was an attempt to invade and arrest Ojukwu. That was not war. No territory was taken. Why are Biafrans so full of falsehood? They have formed a subculture of using propaganda to advance their positions. They did […]
Beyond Tolerance: Southern Africa’s Approach to Religious Diversity A Peaceful Coexistence LIVING in Southern Africa reveals an unexpected reality about religion in the region. Unlike much of Europe, where religious identity often divides and politicizes societies, Southern Africa presents a model of religious coexistence that is both natural and profound. Countries such as Zambia, Malawi, […]