Why political actions rarely disappear — they return By Babafemi Ojudu There is an old truth politics repeatedly teaches but very few politicians truly believe while power is still in their hands: Power expires. Consequences do not. Today, I wish to write about karma — not in its mystical or theological dimensions. I leave that […]
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Abuja — President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has defended the sweeping economic reforms introduced since he took office in 2023, insisting that Nigeria is now on a path to stability and long-term growth despite the hardships many citizens continue to face. In a nationwide statement marking the third anniversary of his administration on May 29, Tinubu
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There is a number that should dominate every cabinet meeting, every budget review, every FAAC celebration, and every assessment of Nigeria’s economic trajectory. That number is 140 million. One hundred and forty million Nigerians now live in poverty. Not the poverty of statistical abstraction. Not the poverty of economic modelling. But the poverty of empty
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South Africa’s xenophobia is no longer a domestic crisis. It is a direct threat to African integration, continental mobility, and the future of AfCFTA. By TMN Editorial Board When African migrants are hunted through the streets of Johannesburg, when Somali shopkeepers are burned out of townships, when Nigerian-owned businesses are looted in Durban, or when
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The race for Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election is already getting serious as the opposition People’s Democratic Party has opened its presidential primary collation centre in Abuja. Party officials confirmed on Tuesday that the centre is now fully ready to receive and count results from delegates taking part in the party’s presidential convention. The collation centre
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Health authorities in Nigeria have stepped up monitoring and emergency preparations across the country following fresh Ebola outbreaks reported in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). The new alert was announced on Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention through a public health advisory signed by its Director-General,
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More than 800 Palestinians have died since the ceasefire began. In Gaza, families are still waiting for the missing to come home. Maysaa al-Najjar has memorised the sound of her phone not ringing. The 37-year-old mother of six from the Jabalia Refugee Camp has lived inside a particular kind of torment since Israeli forces detained
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Inside the Ebola epidemic tearing through eastern Congo — where burying the dead has become a death sentence They came to bury a neighbour. They left carrying a virus. That is how Ebola has always moved through eastern **** — not only through blood and fever, but through grief itself. Through the hands that wash
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Democracy is often celebrated as government by popular consent. Yet, in many emerging democracies, the real struggle is not whether elections are conducted, but whether political participation remains genuinely competitive. In contemporary time, this tension is increasingly reflected in the growing culture of “consensus candidacy” within political parties — a practice that, while legally permissible
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Third on the continent by GDP, thirtieth by per capita income, twenty-ninth by human development — Nigeria’s economic story is a monument to extraction dressed as progress. TMN Editorial Board | May 2026 Nigeria has long worn the title “Giant of Africa” with ceremonial confidence. The numbers increasingly suggest something far less triumphant: a giant
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