It began with whispers. In the heat of Lagos traffic—amid the roar of danfos racing down Ikorodu Road, the blaring horns at Ojota, and the patient wait of traders along...

The air in Abuja’s National Assembly chamber was thick with anticipation on December 18, 2024. Journalists pressed their microphones closer, legislators shuffled stacks of papers, and staff whispered hurried updates...

Lagos is a city of endless motion, a metropolis that pulses with ambition, wealth, and whispered deals. Yet on the night of July 27, 2006, even this restless giant seemed...

A green note slips through a vendor’s fingers, carried by a sudden gust along the crowded streets of Lagos. Traders shout, shoppers gasp, and the bill flutters like a fragment...

The sun had barely risen over Lagos in 1923 when Herbert Macaulay stepped into the Legislative Council chamber for the first time—not as a British official, but as one of...

On a February night in 1989, the city of Dammam exhaled a silence that felt almost unnatural. The desert sky hung low, the floodlights over the Prince Mohamed bin Fahd...

For over two decades, Intercontinental had been a symbol of rapid success—a banking powerhouse that had absorbed smaller rivals and expanded aggressively across West Africa. But, in 2009, behind polished...

For more than three decades, one set of numbers has quietly dictated the destiny of millions of Nigerian children: 6-3-3-4. Six years of Nursery and primary education, three years of...

On some forgotten afternoon in the late 1980s, in a corner of Owerri where the heat clung stubbornly to rusted rooftops, a wiry boy chased a ball that wasn’t really...

The stillness of Abuja at two in the morning carries its own kind of weight. A city usually humming with the back-and-forth of convoys, the scramble of aides, and the...