By Lasisi Olagunju | The headline came quietly, harmlessly on Thursday: ‘Senate wants more revenues for FG, moves to alter allocation formula.’ The report said the Senate is considering a bill sponsored by Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West) which seeks…
By Lasisi Olagunju | President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned over the weekend, swagger intact, despite his tumble in Turkey. His face was calm; his steps steady. His left arm tucked into the left fold of his agbada; his right palm…
By Lasisi Olagunju | One sad Monday in June last year (2025), I wrote in passing about the perils of fibroid and the ruin it does to hopes, wombs and homes. I got plenty of reactions and comments, some of…
By Reuben Abati | To state the truth, Africa was significantly nowhere at the World Economic Forum which took place this January 19 – 23. You may say absent figuratively, sidelined more specifically, and that has been very much the…
By Ayo Adebusoye | Nigeria enters 2026 confronted by a moral and constitutional crisis disguised as routine budgeting. It is a crisis that strikes at the heart of justice, peace, and the social contract between government and the governed. At…
The e-Birth Registration initiative is a major component of the Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (e-CRVS), using digital tools and mobile applications to capture birth data. The system links each registered child to the National Identification Number (NIN), eliminates…
Nigeria’s digital public infrastructure, particularly its digital payments layer, has expanded access to financial services for millions of citizens previously excluded from the formal banking system. At the centre of this transformation are interoperable payment rails such as Unstructured Supplementary…
By Olayinka Ayeni | In December, the African Dignity Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on preventive healthcare and dignity for vulnerable populations, supported a community health outreach in Nigeria. The programme provided breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, blood pressure…
Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, is Africa’s second-largest city economy after Cairo, with an estimated population of over 22 million people and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about $259 billion based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). Yet, beneath this economic…
By John Onyeukwu | Fuel subsidy removal and tax reform have expanded Nigeria’s revenue room, but without disciplined social investment, the reform moment risks losing legitimacy. Nigeria’s removal of fuel subsidies and its renewed push on tax reform are often…
