The Federal Government has returned more than one million children who were previously out of school to classrooms within the past 20 months, the Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa, has disclosed. Alausa made the disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja while receiving the newly appointed United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Country Representative…
More than two weeks after gunmen stormed schools in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State and abducted dozens of pupils, students and teachers, the incident remains a painful reminder that insecurity is no longer confined to any region of Nigeria. The attack, which occurred on May 15, targeted three schools in the Ahoro-Esinle and…
Nigeria stands at a defining economic crossroads. The growing debate over unrestricted fuel importation versus strategic support for domestic refining has become more than a policy disagreement; it is now a test of the country’s commitment to industrialisation, economic sovereignty, and long-term national development. At the centre of this debate is the Dangote Refinery, arguably…
The reported partnership between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) and Chinese firms to restart the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries has once again reopened an uncomfortable national question: why has Nigeria spent billions of dollars over the years on refineries that barely refine? For decades, successive governments have committed enormous public funds…
Nigeria’s electricity sector remains one of the deepest scars on the nation’s development landscape, a chronic failure that blights households, cripples industries, and drains public finances. Despite successive government promises and eye‑watering budget allocations, the power grid continues to sputter, leaving citizens and businesses to pay the price for something that ought to be basic…
The escalating military confrontation involving Iran, the United States and Israel is sending shockwaves through global energy markets, with crude oil prices rising sharply and creating new economic pressures for countries like Nigeria. Over the past two weeks, international crude benchmarks have surged dramatically. Brent Crude, the global benchmark used to price much of the…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2026 into law, setting the legal framework for the 2027 general elections and igniting fresh debates over electoral reform in the country. The brief ceremony took place at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, 18 February 2026, with principal officers of the National Assembly…
For more than four decades, the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited has remained Nigeria’s most enduring symbol of policy failure, wasteful spending, and misplaced national priorities. Conceived in the late 1970s as the bedrock of Nigeria’s industrialisation, the steel complex has instead become a recurring drain on public finances, surviving not on productivity but on annual…
