Natasha Doll: A squishy toy, a disturbing trend, and the long, uncomfortable history behind why the Black version is always the one that gets hurt. If you have been on…
Every empty classroom seat in Nigeria tells a story. Some belong to children pushed out of the classroom by poverty and insecurity. Others belong to children whose parents no longer…
Children's Day 2026 arrived as a bitter reminder of our national failure to protect those who should matter most. Yesterday was Children's Day in Nigeria. On this date every year…
By Kemi Adeosun Every language has words that travel. Wahala needed no translation when it crossed from Yoruba into Nigerian English and then into global consciousness. Everyone knows what wahala is.…
By Kemi Adeosun There are weddings you attend for the couple, and weddings you attend for the room. Last week I attended one of the latter. The occasion was beautiful,…
Mahmud Sadisu Buba, a 30-year-old former driver from Kaduna State, is challenging assumptions about who can represent Nigerians in the National Assembly. If elected in 2027, he would become the…
On May 11th, JAMB announced new minimum cut-off scores for the 2026/2027 academic session: 150 for Universities and Colleges of Nursing, and 100 for Polytechnics, out of a maximum of…
When President Bola Tinubu appointed retired Major General Adeyinka A. Famadewa as special adviser on homeland security on Monday, he created a role that had never existed at Nigeria's federal…
When Tosin Eniolorunda, co-founder of Moniepoint, said at The Platform Nigeria in Lagos that the company struggled to find Nigerian candidates who met its required “global standards,” the remark triggered…
When a sitting governor invokes 'Operation Wetie' in a public address, and the ruling party responds by accusing him of inciting violence, something has broken in the country's political discourse.…
