By Olawale Olalekan, https://panatlantickompass.com/ AS NIGERIA marks another Democracy Day, a new public opinion poll has revealed a disconnect between the country’s democratic practices and the reality experienced by its citizens. ​The nationwide poll conducted ahead of the 2026 Democracy Day, released by premier polling agency NOIPolls, dis...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA IS once again counting its dead. Across several communities, bandits and terrorists have unleashed fresh waves of violence, leaving families shattered, villages deserted, and citizens wondering whether anybody is truly in charge of their safety. This analysis is not written from the standpoint of a security expert, but...
By Joke Kujenya The questions Nigerians keep asking as banditry, kidnapping and terror attacks persist. . .  A nation cannot budget endlessly for security while citizens continue to budget for fear. . . The time has come to ask difficult questions about what is working, what is failing and what must change. . . DAILY […]
By Joke Kujenya While politicians fight for power, many Nigerian children remain trapped in kidnappers’ dens. How does any leader sleep comfortably knowing this? SOMEWHERE IN Nigeria tonight, a child is crying in a forest. Not because of hunger alone. Not because of cold alone. But because fear has become the only language that child [&hellip...
By Joke Kujenya A DISTURBING trend has been gradually spreading across social media platforms, and many people are pretending not to see it. Or perhaps the agencies expected to enforce regulations including governments, health regulators, and social media platform operators have all, up till now, failed to act against dangerous drug advertisin...
By Olajide Okunola PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu may still have more than a year before the next major electoral cycle fully unfolds, but inside the All Progressives Congress (APC), the struggle for political positioning has already begun with unusual intensity. Across Nigeria, APC primaries are no longer just routine party exercises. They are becomi...
By Joke Kujenya A business built on hope, algorithms and endless labour … EVERY MORNING, thousands of online publishers wake up and begin the same routine all over again, keeping their hopes alive that things might eventually click. They search for stories, verify facts, edit headlines, upload reports, resize images, fix website proble...
By Joke Kujenya NIGERIA’s POLITICAL environment is already showing familiar signs of early positioning ahead of the 2027 general elections, with major actors across the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) adjusting alliances, messaging, and influence stru...
By Sunday Dare FROM EQUITORIAL Guinea to Tanzania, from Accra to Addis Ababa, and now, from Nairobi to Kigali, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with sartorial elegance and swashbuckling confidence, is traversing Africa preaching Nigeria’s reform story to the world. While the echoes of President Tinubu’s economic reforms have since reverbera...
By Joke Kujenya PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu’s reported redeployment of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, from a proposed ambassadorial posting to Germany to South Africa has reopened debate about the kind of diplomacy Nigeria needs at a delicate moment in its foreign relations. The initial reports linking Fani-Kayode to Germany generated ...
