The Country That Read the Contract, and the One That Did Not By Chidi Ekeh _Ghana walked away. Zimbabwe walked away. Kenya is in court. Zambia is in standoff. Nigeria signed the largest deal of them all, and has not, to date, told its own citizens what is in it_ . On 19 December…
Trailblazing leadership, compassionate Service: The Inspiring story of Yeye Oge Hajia Nike Abdulrahman By Lai Gidado Hajia Musleemah Nike Abdulrahman stands as a shining example of visionary leadership, humanitarian service, and women-centred advocacy. A proud daughter of Offa in Kwara State, she has devoted her life to empowering communities, strengthening institutions, and promoting inclusive governance….
The President Blessed Them Both. Now Watch Them Fight . How Tinubu’s favourite management tool the ambiguous mandate has turned Abia APC into a demolition derby, with 2027 as the prize and nobody in charge of the steering wheel On the morning of Monday, April 27, 2026, two of the most powerful APC politicians from…
The Piece: A Political Round-Up Working Title: “Nigeria’s 2027 Race Has Already Started — And Nobody’s Governing” The Central Thread Every story you listed is actually one story: Nigerian politics has entered full 2027 mode while 2026 is barely half done. On the opposition side, alliances are fracturing before they’ve even solidified. On the…
Fifteen States. One Saboteur. Zero Megawatts. Nigeria spent three years building a new electricity governance framework. NERC is now dismantling it one illegal directive at a time. By Chidi Ekeh Let us begin with a fact so precise it requires no embellishment. Section 230(6) of the Electricity Act 2023 the legislation that NERC administers,…
TINUBU’S NUMBERS DON’T ADD UP. THEY NEVER DID. When a president rewrites the record systematically — always in the same direction — that is not spin. That is a governing philosophy. By Chidi Ekeh Let me tell you what the numbers say. On a day in 2025, President Bola Tinubu stood before Nigerians and said…
THE MASQUERADE THAT FORGOT ITS OWN DANCE Sit down, my children. Sit down. There is a proverb our people keep close to their chest like a farmer keeps his best seed — ugbu a ka oge di mma— now is when the time matters most. I did not leave my *obi* to come and whisper….
Rate Card for a Dying Man: How Nigeria Learned to Monetise Misery By Chidi Ekeh A woman in a pink head wrap looked into a phone camera sometime last year and said, quietly, with the exhausted precision of someone who has finished crying: “Everything we paid to influencers — there was five million, one million,…
. The Night the Internet Did Not Forget _March 6, 2026 – Al Jazeera Head to Head, Conway Hall, London. By Chidi Ekeh Mehdi Hasan vs. Daniel Bwala turned into a public execution by archive. You walked in as Tinubu’s spokesman. You left as a meme holding a water glass.The Demolition – Short VersionTrump bombed…
The Incident: A Detailed Breakdown By Chidi Ekeh On February 27, 2026, during a monthly media parley in Umuahia, Abia State’s capital, Governor Alex Otti engaged in a heated exchange with journalist Chika Nwabueze of Don Media Group (sometimes referred to as BON Media Group). This event was part of Otti’s regular “Media Chat with…
