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Episode Description Artificial intelligence has moved out of the research lab and into everyday life. It now shapes how we bank, learn, farm, get treated in hospitals, and even how we vote. For Nigeria and […]

STATE OF THE NATION | EPISODE 200 State of the Nation reaches its 200th episode. Host Ade Balogun sits down with Prince Adewole Adebayo, presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), for a frank […]

When Nigeria was approaching independence in 1960, the Western Region already had an unusually strong commitment to mass education. But its leaders believed that primary and secondary education alone were not enough. The region needed […]

A gentleman called Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour wants to be governor of Lagos State. But he cannot speak the language of the land. About four weeks ago, he told Arise TV that he had hired a teacher […]

President Bola Tinubu is a very lucky strongman who has die-hard supporters, even among his victims. One of my friends mounted the rooftop on Tuesday last week and joyfully announced to the president’s critics: “The […]

Is it okay for you and i to take a quick pause to look back at your journey thus far and be like Miriam for today? Let us leave Moses out of todays matter, today […]

Something is going wrong in the Church today, and it does not begin in the pulpit. It begins much earlier, when a man is brought forward to be ordained and those who should ask hard […]

Sixty-six years ago, Nigeria raised the Green-White-Green flag and stepped into independence with hope. Our founding generation believed they were handing us the beginning of a great nation—a country where education would open doors, hard […]

There is a stage in life when the noise gradually reduces. The children have left home, careers have slowed down, friends have become fewer, and suddenly the house that once felt too small becomes suspiciously […]

On Thursday, 10 September, 2026, I bought petrol worth ₦90,259 for my car. Eight days later, on Friday, 18 September, the vehicle flashed its annoying yellow warning light. I fed it another ₦30,000 worth of […]

Thank you to everyone who responded to my earlier post on the Carter Bridge reconstruction and drew my attention to the various announcements and media reports that preceded the commencement of demolition. For the avoidance […]

I have known Senator Ireti Kingibe since I was a kid. I knew her sister Nene, who was at Queen’s College with my late cousin Dr Doris Fisher, née Amachree, and Stella Amachree. I know […]

Lagos has finally advertised a vacancy: CEO OF THE MEGACITY. Applicants are already everywhere. Their photographs occupy poles, fences, walls and medians. But Lagos says: “I have seen your posters. Now show me your PLAN.” […]

Yesterday in New York, Nigerian delegates staged a well-rehearsed walkout from the United Nations General Assembly as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium. Dozens of delegates left the hall in protest of Israel’s […]

There was a time when a Lagos Island address was more than an address. If you told a Lagosian that you lived at Number 14, XYZ Street, you were not merely giving directions. You were […]

In those days, there were no filling stations like today and Nigeria had no refinery at all, we didn’t produce petrol until 1965. Here is how it worked: Petrol was imported. Shell D’Arcy, the joint […]

Something strange and relentless is unfolding in Ogun politics. One voice after another is rising against Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly called Yayi, and the pressure is clearly rattling him. What do these people know […]

See ehn, KC boys historically had a major advantage when it came to toasting QC girls. 😂 There was something about a KC boy that made you at least pause and consider the application. You […]

I have been watching the arguments and protests by some Igbo traders over the growing presence of Chinese businessmen at Trade Fair, and honestly, I think we need to look at this issue differently. I […]