By Nkanu Egbe In a surprise move just days after the IMF’s Spring Meetings delivered stark warnings on Nigeria’s fiscal woes, President Bola Tinubu on April 21, 2026, executed a targeted cabinet reshuffle, sacking Wale Edun as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. Stepping into the hot seat is Taiwo Oyedele, the Read More…
By Nkanu Egbe In 2015, Nigerians discovered that social media could win elections. APC “social warriors” waged relentless online campaigns against the PDP, and their victory entrenched digital warfare in the public sphere. Then came #ENDSARS in 2020: a youth‑led uprising against police brutality, the Lekki toll‑gate massacre, and the impunity of the state. Out Read More…
Every Tamuno, Dike and Hadi knows that the 2027 elections in Nigeria will be primarily between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The recent de-listing of ADC’s officials (Senator David Mark and former governor Rauf Aregbesola) from the INEC portal will not stop the gang-up against the APC. As Read More…
The APC National Convention at Eagle Square was, by all official accounts, a carefully choreographed political exercise—large in scale, deliberate in outcome, and clearly aligned with the party’s forward strategy toward 2027. Yet, as is often the case in Nigeria, the formal narrative tells only part of the story. The fuller interpretation emerges in informal spaces, where Read More…
The ongoing US/Israel vs Iran war will go down in history as one landmark event that has re-educated the world about how the politics of identity can be used as a baton to beat history, religion and geography on the head. Inequity, as carefully distinguished from inequality, is finely embroidered into the fabric of world Read More…
Former Central Bank Deputy Governor and 2019 presidential candidate, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has broken his silence on his departure from the Nigerian political arena, describing his return to international professional life as a transformative and necessary move for his personal well-being. In a candid statement shared recently, Moghalu addressed the persistent “Nigeria needs you” narrative, Read More…
We have recently witnessed spirited protests and media contestations on the electoral bill then in the works and now signed into law by President Bola Tinubu. If you immerse yourself too deeply in the emotive tragicomedy, you may miss the tragedy of how politics has torn the fabric of brotherhood down the middle, or the Read More…
In recent times, quite a number of ponderous statements have been credited to some self-styled ‘northern’ groups as regards the economy and governance. You would think the other zones of the country escorted them to the world. How presumptuous some people can get! Of course, I understand the game. Every politician wants to be relevant. Read More…
Nigeria is a country with two distinct legal systems, whether we admit it or not. That is the only way to describe the country, given that some people insist that everything, including the constitution, be subordinated to their religion. To cover up their refusal to accept the secularity of Nigeria, they make such claims as, Read More…
By Nkanu Egbe In a strategic pivot from conventional political coverage, US Vice President Kamala Harris offered an extraordinarily bleak assessment of the current political environment in the United States, declaring the country is at a critical juncture. Her most striking quote, which also serves as the title of the conversation, was: “America Is At Read More…