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I am currently researching and writing an independent biography of Muhammadu Buhari – a project I commenced in April 2024 – and I recognise that this places me in a position of potential professional interest: the public perception of Buhari, and the reception of competing works about him, may indirectly affect my own work. It…
The Chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has issued a stark warning, outlining the negative consequences for workers and businesses if Nigeria’s newly signed tax laws are not implemented by the January 1, 2026 deadline. President Bola Tinubu recently enacted four major tax reform bills, hailed by the…
As he marks six years at the helm, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta asserts that his transformational project has positioned the club squarely among the elite, primed to compete for the game’s highest honors. With Arsenal leading the Premier League table, the Spaniard’s long-term rebuild has crystallized into sustained contention, shifting the club’s trajectory from top-four…
The United States Mission in Nigeria has celebrated 54 emerging Nigerian leaders following their completion of the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The welcome reception, held in Lagos on Thursday, recognised the Fellows who were selected from more than 7,400 applicants and underwent intensive leadership training at top U.S. universities in business,…
The claim that Christians are systematically persecuted in Nigeria has become a recurring headline in both domestic and international media. Yet this narrative, upon closer examination, is misleading and politically expedient. It distorts Nigeria’s complex security and governance crises into a simplistic religious binary that obscures the deeper realities of state failure, elite manipulation, and…
President Muhammadu Buhari had not been laid to rest when Sam Omatseye dusted off his thesaurus to launch a verbal barrage on a man whose silence and restraint perhaps shielded Omatseye from greater embarrassment during his own missteps in journalism. In his piece titled “Anticlimax”, published in The Nation of 14 July 2025, he demonstrated…
Buhari There is an old saying that some men are born for their times, while others have their times thrust upon them. Muhammadu Buhari was neither. He was a man who shaped his times across five decades of service to Nigeria, leaving footprints so deep that his passing marks the end of an era. As…
In China, the emergence of the leadership of President Xi Jinping in 2012 threw up a leader who will proffer performance above pronouncements; expertise, and competence instead of title and position. Xi Jinping’s leadership has pioneered bold and innovative initiatives towards national development beyond seeking handouts and aid; offering compassionate hands to their people instead…
I had called his mobile line one Thursday afternoon in June 2016, but he didn’t pick the call. So I left a message for him. At about 11pm on that same day, I was getting set to go to bed when my phone rang. On the other end was Malam Mamman Daura, a figure of…
“Great excitement and hopes had followed Nigeria’s political independence on 1 October 1960 after decades of British colonial rule. Independence, which has remained an annual celebration since then, brought relief to the Nigerian populace and a certain sense of freedom. It marked the end of an era of national political servitude, and the beginning of…
