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As the calendar turned to 2026, the Federal Government of Nigeria announced that its new tax laws would take effect on January 1 as planned, even amid mounting controversy and calls for a delay from
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The recent reports surrounding Anthony Joshua and a fatal crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have once again forced public attention onto Nigeria’s dangerous roads. While relief that a global sporting figure survived is understandable, the
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How institutional failure, corruption, and diplomatic drift are eroding Nigeria’s standing at home and abroad. Nigeria is governing itself into chaos. What looks like drift is in fact the outcome of choice, democratised incompetence sustained
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Nigeria, In the wake of expanded U.S. visa restrictions affecting Nigerian citizens and those from more than 20 other countries, former Kaduna Central lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani is calling on Nigerians to channel their energies
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There is a particular danger when power stops pretending. No longer does it bother with caution, justification, or the rituals of accountability. It simply proceeds, confident that outrage will fade and attention will move on.
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Indian authorities have arrested a Nigerian national alleged to be at the centre of a major narcotics distribution network that supplied drugs to almost 1,975 customers across Telangana State. The suspect, identified by police simply
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One need not be a profound philosopher to discern the melancholy truth: Nigeria is ensnared in a cycle of hopelessness. At the close of every administration, citizens exhale in relief, only to discover that the
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Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. More often, they erode quietly, through small compromises that accumulate until institutions once trusted begin to feel unfamiliar. Courts are usually among the last to fall, and
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Societies can survive bad leaders, economic shocks, even waves of insecurity. What they do not survive for long is the collapse of their courts. In Nigeria today, the slow capture of the judiciary by political
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Another coup attempt in Guinea Bissau. Another wave of condemnations from regional blocs and international partners. Another reminder that Africa remains trapped in a cycle it claims to oppose but has failed to dismantle. The
