Author: Centre for Nigeria Progress

By a BBC Obituarist (Who Definitely Didn't Have This One on Their Bingo Card) The BBC News obituaries team, as is well known, maintains carefully crafted portraits of notable public figures, ready for that inevitable day. The files range from revered monarchs to celebrated artists . The guiding principle, as former BBC obituary editor Nick …

Continue reading "A Solemn (and Somewhat Bewildering) Look at the Life of Donald J. Trump As it might have been prepared, with grim determination, the BBC Obituaries Unit. By Lawson Akhigbe"

Just like his first presidency, President Donald Trump’s first calendar year back in the White House was an unceasing parade of lies. In 2025, though, the variety of Trump’s false claims shrunk even as he maintained his trademark staggering frequency.Trump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It became especially repetitive in 2025. While …

Continue reading "Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025 by Daniel Dale"

If American politics were a magic show, the Republican Party would be the magician forever sawing the working class in half — all while asking for applause. They call it populism; I call it professional pickpocketing with flags and Bible verses. For decades now, the GOP has mastered the art of political ventriloquism — speaking …

Continue reading "The US Republican Bait-and-Switch: Populism for the Poor, Power for the Rich"

I find the UK’s outrage over digital ID rather quaint — a little like watching someone panic about electricity while clutching a torch (“Starmer gives green light to digital ID plan”, Report, FT Weekend, September 20; and “In defence of digital ID”, Magazine, Life & Arts, October 4). In South Africa, we’ve lived with a …

Continue reading "Forget ID cards — tech giants already own our digital souls by AJ Bekker"

We recognise the genuine challenges facing Nigeria’s aviation industry, particularly the burden of multiple taxes, levies, and regulatory charges. The Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee on behalf of the government has engaged extensively with airline operators and those engagements are ongoing. Contrary to the claim that the new tax laws will hurt the …

Continue reading "𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏, 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐓 𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐒 by 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒙 𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒆"