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The Power of Youth in Co-Creating Education What Nigeria’s Latest Evidence is Really Saying

The 2026 International Day of Education theme “The Power of Youth in Co-Creating Education” is not a rhetorical flourish. It is a direct challenge to

Taxation in Nigeria and a question of trust

Nigerians hardly know figures but are also hardly confounded by them. In a country where basic literacy figures continue to take a steep slide, many N

2027 gov’ship race: Can Senator Buba Shehu win Bauchi?

As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 general elections, the political temperature across the Northeast is steadily rising. Of the six states in the re

Defection politics: A cancer eating Nigerian’s democracy

The spectacle has become all too familiar. No sooner do elections conclude than the political migration begins—a steady stream of politicians crossing

This has to stop. Arewa is tired

Arewa is tired. Not the kind of tiredness that sleep can fix, but the kind that settles into the bones and shows itself in lowered voices and in how m