Letters
Maroko: Echoes of demolition and displacement still haunt Lagos
Wars are not the only events that leave behind painful realities. Sometimes, the quiet groan of bulldozers, the dust of crumbling concrete, and the silence of families rendered homeless write the dark...
30th April 2025
Makemation: A movie that promotes female tech adoption
Leaders and activists talk about the girl child and technology regularly, but few explore the intricacies and challenges besetting the girl child, especially concerning charting a path in the tech wor...
28th April 2025
Trump tariffs: Nigerian exporters in dilemma
In a significant turn of events, Nigeria’s exporters are grappling with unprecedented challenges in shipping goods to the United States following the full enforcement of Trump’s new tariff regulat...
28th April 2025
Acting on early flood warnings
Nigeria has faced a series of flood disasters in the past few years. And after each occurrence, many lives are lost, even as properties worth several million naira are destroyed. Last year, flood disa...
28th April 2025
Stop unfair treatment of polytechnic graduates
Dear Dr Tunji Alausa, Congratulations on your new beat, the Ministry of Education, after your brief but impactful sojourn at the Ministry of Health. I am glad you are meticulously making an impact the...
24th April 2025
Rivers SSG: Between ethnic loyalty and public service
The recent appointment of Professor Ibibia Lucky Worika as the Secretary to the Rivers State Government has generated reactions from various quarters, particularly within the Ijaw and riverine communi...
17th April 2025
CBEX: Why Nigerians will always fall for Ponzi schemes
Ogungbile Oludotun writes via [email protected] The tears are fresh once again. This time, they are flowing from victims of CBEX, a now-defunct digital asset trading platform that promised fi...
17th April 2025
Afrobeat: A musical rebirth of identity
George Brian writes via [email protected] In the spectrum of global music and culture, a powerful force is rising—not quietly, but with the thunderous beat of talking drums, hypnotic bassline...
15th April 2025
The ungolden silence of NJC on Imo judiciary
In Imo State, something deeply unsettling has taken root. The judiciary, once the final refuge for order and fairness, now finds itself mired by interference. A disturbing pattern has emerged—one th...
15th April 2025
Stop the discrimination against HND graduates
Dear Dr Tunji Alausa, Congratulations on your new beat, the Ministry of Education, after your brief but impactful sojourn at the Ministry of Health. I am glad you are meticulously making an impact the...
10th April 2025
Nigeria’s health sector and technological evolution
The agony faced by Africans during the last pandemic bout is still fresh in our memories. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a critical vulnerability in healthcare systems across Nigeria and Africa—the s...
10th April 2025
Government’s inattention to retina eye problems
It is with a heavy heart and deep frustration that I write this letter to draw attention to a pressing issue that affects not only me but countless Nigerians who are grappling with the devastating eff...
8th April 2025
Securing the future with digital transformation
As Nigeria accelerates toward a fully digital economy, a new frontier of opportunity and vulnerability is unfolding. With the rapid adoption of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, ...
3rd April 2025
Bills that actually matter
For years, I have watched bills sponsored by members of the Nigerian House of Representatives and their “senior counterparts” in the Senate with little or no excitement. Often, they seem disconnec...
1st April 2025
Regional and ethnic bias in the Sudanese war
Since the outbreak of Sudan’s civil war in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, human rights organisations, such as Human Rights Watch, have raised serious conc...
27th March 2025
Addressing Rivers crisis
Barrister David Owaboye writes via [email protected] The ongoing crisis in Rivers State is a complex issue that reflects a combination of political, social, and economic factors. The region has ex...
25th March 2025
Urgent need to revitalise mental health services
Bello Shuni writes via [email protected] I am writing to bring to the attention of the Minister of Health, Muhammad Ali Pate, to the alarming state of mental health services in Nigeria. As you ma...
25th March 2025
Preventing the next building collapse
On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a tragic building collapse occurred on Oriwu Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, claiming four lives and leaving 15 others injured. This devastating incident is yet another pain...
25th March 2025
The fate of African child with disability
Dr Obraori Adiela, a technical adviser at the Freky Andrew-Essien Care Foundation, writes from Port Harcourt, Rivers State The birth of a child in African society is often met with joy, but this joy i...
25th March 2025
Widening inequality in America
Beneath the widely celebrated American slogan, “Only in America”, lies a reality unknown to the majority. The founding fathers envisioned this nation as a domain exclusively for White men of wealt...
18th March 2025
An eventful month for Nigeria’s intelligence and anti-graft agencies
February was a month of high-stakes drama and intense scrutiny for Nigeria’s top security and anti-corruption bodies. From political clashes to internal upheavals, these pivotal institutions were at...
6th March 2025
In search of a transparent oil and gas sector
In January 2025, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission announced efforts to enhance transparency in the sector through the Advance Cargo Declaration Solution and the Engineering Audit ...
5th March 2025
How US funding freeze threatens global health
The recent freeze on the US government’s international funding has sent shockwaves through the global health community, leaving advocacy organisations like The Initiative for Equal Rights grappling ...
4th March 2025
A lamentable legislative letdown
Everything that happens at the National Assembly usually generates a lot of attention for Nigerians, and for good reason. Beyond the insularity of the executive and the clear lack of autonomy of the j...
3rd March 2025
A belated repatriation
Many Nigerians fantasise about the Western World. While the more affluent Nigerians have been able to turn their fantasies into reality by visiting the Western countries and spending considerable time...
3rd March 2025
Reshaping informal economy through e-commerce
Has e-commerce truly lived up to its potential of reforming Nigeria’s vast informal economy, offering financial inclusion, digital empowerment, and a pathway to sustainable growth? Nigeria stands at...
27th February 2025
A nation’s quest for clarity
Olufemi Aduwo is the Permanent Representative of the Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity to the United Nations In this era of historical conventions and national retrospection, it has become...
27th February 2025
USAID and Boko Haram: Filling the knowledge gap
One would have to agree with the Senate President that not all information on the internet is true, while we can debate the 99 per cent used in his summation on the floor of the house, certainly, he w...
26th February 2025
The fallacy of Lt. Col. Musa Bitiyong’s involvement in coup
The attention of the family of late Lt. Col. Musa Bitiyong (murdered by IBB) has been drawn to the false narrative that Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, who became Nigeria’s president from 1985 to 1993 t...
26th February 2025
The forgotten heroine of faith
This article aims to galvanise our soldiers and the Christian Association of Nigeria to action. Leah Sharibu, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists is still in captivity. Leah made a stand for her faith. ...
25th February 2025
What are Nigerians benefiting from lawmakers?
Nigeria’s independence in 1960 provided a momentous occasion for the country to pause, re-evaluate its excision from Britain’s clogged colonial policy and make a dash for a decorated, prosperous f...
25th February 2025
