Opinion

By Jumoke Adejumobi-Owodunni There is a conversation happening in boardrooms across Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg. It goes something like this: FinTech is eating our lunch. What do we do? It is the wrong question. Over the past decade, African financial institutions have watched a new generation of technology-driven companies…

By Caleb Ohaeri The rise of artificial intelligence is no longer a distant global conversation. It is already reshaping the Nigerian workplace in subtle but powerful ways. From media houses and digital agencies to customer service centres and small businesses, AI tools are changing how tasks are performed, how quickly…

By Caleb Ohaeri Nigeria’s attention economy is no longer a passing digital trend. It is becoming one of the country’s most important informal economic systems, driven largely by young people forced to innovate in the face of economic hardship, unemployment, and shrinking opportunities. Across the country, smartphones have quietly transformed…

Caleb Ohaeri Nigeria’s growing attention economy reflects more than a social media trend; it reveals a deeper transformation in how young people are adapting to economic uncertainty, unemployment, and the changing nature of work. Across the country, digital platforms are no longer simply spaces for entertainment or communication. They are…

​By Kennedy Elaigwu Awodi ​In the complex theatre of West African geopolitics, leadership is the invisible thread holding the fabric of national stability together. For Nigeria, a nation balancing domestic security with regional hegemony, the caliber of its military leadership is a matter of national survival and prestige. The recent…

By Zebulon Chinedum Obi Every election season in Nigeria seems to come with renewed hope. There is always talk of reforms, transparency, improved systems, and technology that will finally make the process work better. And for a brief moment, it feels like maybe—just maybe—things will be different this time. But…

By Emmanuel Nicholas The enigma of existence is often sealed in cipher, wrapped by Divinity in a guise so unassuming that the unwary mistake it for mere crumbs. What arrives as a banquet fit for kings may be dismissed as scraps; what bears the hallmark of a world-class masterpiece may…

By Emmanuel Nicholas The people of Akwa Ibom State find themselves in a state of measured astonishment as the party primaries approach, for there exists no crescendo of acrimony, no rampant vilification of prospective aspirants by their rivals, a marked and salutary departure from the combative politicking that characterized prior…

By Emmanuel Nicholas At the outset, I confess to being profoundly mortified by the author of this article, whose faculties appear so beset by intellectual jaundice that his cognitive apparatus has expunged the veracious chronicle of history from his memory, thereby rendering him intellectually bankrupt and bereft of sound comprehension.…

By Emmanuel Nicholas Nigeria’s urban development narrative is undergoing a quiet yet tectonic transformation. While Abuja and Lagos have, for decades, dominated discussions on aesthetic grandeur, infrastructural sophistication, and economic preeminence, Uyo — the resplendent capital of Akwa Ibom State — has, with calculated precision and sustained momentum, ascended the…