FOLLOW THE MONEY, FOLLOW THE DAMAGE What Nigeria’s Biggest Investigations of 2025 Revealed THE most consequential investigations of 2025 followed a simple principle: trace the money, document the damage, and listen to the victims. What emerged was a sobering […]
DETTY December is no longer a cultural accident. It is a system—deliberate, monetised, and deeply embedded in Nigeria’s social fabric. Each December, the country enters a high-stakes cycle of celebration that blends entertainment, economics and identity into a single national moment. The phrase captures the intensity of the season: loud music, packed streets, […]
HISTORY often remembers the Aro-Ibibio War as a clash of kingdoms. But beneath the surface lies a far more intricate story—one of political engineering, contested legitimacy, foreign intervention, and the strategic creation of an entirely new power structure in southeastern Nigeria. What unfolded in the mid-17th century was not just a war; it was a […]
THE Benin monarchy is one of Africa’s oldest and most enduring institutions—revered, sacrosanct, and traditionally beyond public challenge. To disagree with the Oba is to question not just a king, but a centuries-old spiritual and political order. Yet history records rare, seismic moments when sections of the Benin populace—chiefs, elites, and everyday citizens—collectively pushed back. […]
FOR decades, African politicians, preachers, and public commentators have insisted that queerness is a foreign import — a Western invention smuggled in through colonization and reinforced by globalisation. Yet history carries a different testimony, one so powerful and so disruptive that it threatens the very foundation of this narrative. Buried in the layers of Yoruba […]
By OKAFOR EMEKA XAVIER The Secret War That Shook the Delta’s Power Structure FOR decades, the Niger Delta’s mangrove underworld has been ruled by fluid alliances, brutal rivalries, and an economy powered as much by oil as by guns. Among its many actors, one man became the unquestioned sovereign of the creeks: Government Ekpemupolo — Tompolo, […]
IGBO spirituality is a complex tapestry of forces and principles, embodied in a pantheon of deities that govern nature, morality, and human destiny. At the top is Chukwu (Chi-Ukwu), the Supreme Source—too vast to be worshipped directly. Ala/Ani, Mother Earth, upholds morality, justice, fertility, and the laws of the land, while Amadioha wields thunder, lightning, […]
NORTHERN Nigeria’s political landscape has long been shaped by complex historical, cultural, and ethnic forces. Today, the region’s distribution of political leadership has re-opened debates about representation, identity, and the legacy of power structures dating back more than a century. Across the 19 northern states, each governed by an elected governor, a […]
By NELSON EGWARE A fresh wave of debates over Nigeria’s next round of state creation has revived old tensions in Delta North, where lawmakers and local government chairmen are now battling what they describe as a calculated attempt to “drag Anioma into the South-East.” In a rare united front, all Delta North legislators in the State […]
By STELLA JOHNSON OGBOVOVEH OGUN State has announced a free lead poisoning test for residents of Ogijo, particularly those living near or working in the town’s six recently shut battery-recycling plants. The initiative follows investigative reports by PREMIUM TIMES and The Examination exposing unsafe conditions and widespread lead contamination. State Health Commissioner Tomi Coker said […]