Government completes emergency evacuation as many returnees arrive with little more than the clothes they wore, leaving behind businesses, homes and families. LAGOS — The last of Nigeria’s government-sponsored evacuation flights from South Africa has landed in Lagos, bringing to a close an emergency airlift that returned more than 1,500 Nigerians fleeing weeks of xenophobic
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Every institution that survives long enough develops two things: bureaucracy and a power ecosystem. The first is inevitable. The second is unavoidable. Neither is inherently harmful. Bureaucracy provides continuity, order and accountability. Power ecosystems emerge because leadership invariably attracts advisers, gatekeepers, loyalists, critics and ambitious actors seeking influence. The real danger begins when bureaucracy ceases
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There are scandals that expose corruption. There are scandals that expose incompetence. Then there are scandals that reveal something even more disturbing: a state bureaucracy that has become so fragmented that it can no longer distinguish between what belongs to government and what merely appears to. The lingering controversy surrounding the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion
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South Africa’s crisis is not that crime exists among migrants. Crime exists in every society. The crisis is that individual criminality has become the basis for collective guilt. A cult killing becomes evidence against millions of Nigerians. A drug arrest becomes proof that African migrants are the architects of national decline. Between isolated crimes and nationwide hostility lies a powerful political machinery that transforms fear into narrative, narrative into policy, and policy into exclusion. Unless South Africa learns to distinguish justice from scapegoating, it risks fighting crime by criminalizing an entire people.
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The controversy over akara generated more political heat than economic insight. The real issue is whether Nigeria is prepared to transform its vast informal economy from a survival mechanism into a platform for innovation, productivity and inclusive growth.
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A massive APC rally in Ado-Ekiti has reinforced what the numbers, party structures, and political alignments have been suggesting for months: Governor Biodun Oyebanji enters Saturday’s governorship election as the man to beat. ADO-EKITI — As thousands of supporters flooded the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion for the APC’s grand finale campaign rally, the political message was
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Nigeria’s unemployment rate dropped from 33% to 4.3% — not because jobs appeared, but because the definition changed. Underneath the headline number: 93% informal employment and a labour market built on precarity, not scarcity.
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By Mary Oso – Omotosho In May 1998, history quietly unfolded at the wedding reception of a young Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO). The Chairman of the occasion was none other than Otunba Niyi Adebayo, the first Executive Governor of Ekiti State. But this was no ordinary honour. BAO was not just a groom that day—he
Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria is getting closer to introducing state police, as the Presidency says work on the legal and constitutional framework needed to make it happen is almost complete. The development is a major step in a discussion that has lasted for more than 20 years, with many Nigerians arguing that states should have their
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Record market gains, record revenues, record poverty. Nigeria’s economy is growing, but too many Nigerians are not. The trading floor is celebrating. The Nigerian Exchange has become one of Africa’s strongest-performing stock markets. The All-Share Index has surged to historic highs. Market capitalisation has crossed ₦160 trillion. Banking stocks have soared. Telecommunications companies are reporting
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