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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Opinion

June 23, 2026

They’re coming to America

It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to visit America these days.

TSA Agents
June 23, 2026

 Mark Okoye, SEDC and the trial of South-East leadership

The era when leaders could toy with the destiny of the South-East and expect endless patience is drawing to a close.

Mark Okoye
June 22, 2026

Our republic and its judges

History rarely repeats itself in an identical form. It does, however, preserve patterns.

Justice Peter Lifu and Federal High Court HQ
June 19, 2026

VAT hits N2.42 trillion as Tinubu’s tax reforms begin to deliver results

The latest VAT report released by the National Bureau of Statistics provides strong evidence that Nigeria’s tax and economic reforms are beginning to produce measurable results.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
June 17, 2026

Lipuo Mokhesi: Protecting girls, women from genital mutilation

This solution strengthens early risks, improves survivor care, and transforms health facilities into prevention hubs.

Little children playing
June 16, 2026

Africa’s share in $950 billion animation boom

Global audiences do not want cultural odorlessness: a clean, sterilised visual style stripped of its native identity to fit a safe, generic Western structure.

Nollywood and Hollywood
June 15, 2026

From Matawalle’s mouth to God’s ears

One wonders what conception of God permits such convenient arrangements.

Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle
June 13, 2026

Rudolf Okonkwo: Bayo Onanuga and the full weight of bad judgment

If writing satire comes too easily, you are probably writing bad satire.

Bayo Onanuga and VeryDarkMan
June 12, 2026

Nigerian political elite’s indifference to abducted Oyo schoolchildren

For a public that has grown increasingly desensitised to the country’s recurring crises, the mass abduction has sparked an unusually fierce wave of outrage and collective action.

Bola Tinubu and armed bandits
June 9, 2026

Three years of reform, three years of hardship

When Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, he embraced a neoliberal economic agenda built around market liberalisation, subsidy removal, currency devaluation, and fiscal austerity.

Bola Tinubu and undernourished Nigerian children