A Long-Held Ambition Comes Back Into Focus Victor Osimhen has never been shy about where he wants his career to go. Comments the Nigerian striker made back in 2023 — in which he openly declared his ambition to play in…
A New Bridge Between Training and Capital For years, the story has been the same: young Nigerian founders with genuine ideas but no financial records, no professional networks, and no realistic path to early investment. The federal government is now…
Nigeria’s Super Falcons will not be at the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. For the first time since the tournament came into existence, the most decorated women’s side in African football has failed to qualify — and the manner of…
A tweet posted more than twelve years ago has a habit of finding its moment. Jude Okoye’s 2014 message defending his sister-in-law Lola Omotayo Okoye has resurfaced online, and its timing could hardly be more pointed given the fresh turbulence…
The West African Examinations Council has gone on the offensive against what it calls a wave of unverified claims circulating online about the 2026 WASSCE results — and it wants candidates, parents and schools to stop listening to them. What…
Walk into any NYSC orientation camp in Nigeria today and the picture that greets you tells its own story. Overcrowded dormitories, unreliable water supplies, healthcare facilities that barely function, and sanitation blocks that would embarrass a secondary school. These are…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Kogi State has publicly condemned a government policy requiring assembly candidates to pay N5 million for campaign signage ahead of the 2027 general elections, warning that the levy will effectively shut ordinary Nigerians…
A Governance Failure That Defies Explanation The Chemical Industries National Provident Fund (CINPF) has been ordered to finalise a death benefit claim that has sat unresolved for nearly nine years — a scandal that the Pension Funds Adjudicator has described…
Early on Tuesday morning, before most Lagos motorists had joined the familiar queue at their nearest filling station, something was already moving against them. Depot operators across Nigeria had begun adjusting their rates upward, responding to a crude oil market…
Two separate fires tore through different parts of Kano State on Monday, striking an Access Bank branch in the morning and a residential home in the evening — leaving investigators working to establish causes at both sites. The Kano State…