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APC President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office on May 29, 2023, inheriting an economy plagued by fiscal distortions, multiple exchange rates, heavy subsidy burdens, infrastructure deficits, insecurity, and declining investor confidence. His administration’s “Renewed Hope Agenda”—an eight-point framework—prioritizes macroeconomic stabilization, security enhancement, infrastructure development, human capital investment (education, health, agriculture), and governance reforms. Central to …

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There are moments in the life of a people when difficult questions must be asked, not for provocation, but for the preservation of conscience. This is one of such moments. Across Nigeria today, there is a growing perception, fair or unfair, that the Yoruba, once regarded as a stabilizing moral force in the national equation, …

Continue reading "The Price of Silence: A Personal Reflection on Power, Identity, and Responsibility By Babafemi Ojudu"

It has become a tragic, predictable script in Nigeria. A bandit attack occurs, innocent citizens, often children and their educators, are carted off into the bush, and the initial wave of official responses rolls in. But recently, in Oyo State, a specific reaction to a mass abduction highlighted a deeper, more concerning psychological shift in …

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