From long queues to doorstep delivery: Nigeria’s passport renewal goes digital in the UK
By Israel Fagbemigun For decades, renewing a Nigerian passport was synonymous with frustration.The process often involved repeated visits to immigration offices, hours spent in queues, uncertainty over timelines, and in some cases, allegations of unofficial payments to fast-track applications. For Nigerians living abroad, the experience could be even more demanding, requiring long-distance travel to embassies […]
The Fake Agency Scandal: A nation must now ask who gave phantom institution official life
It has now become a national integrity test. The Presidency says the so-called Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council cum Presidential Economic Advisory Council is fictitious
The Public Service in Challenging Times: Rethinking praxis for more inclusive and innovative reform
A polycrisis implies that these conflicts, crises and challenges are connected in some terribly complicated and complex ways that spells serious headache
The paradox of small land, big ambition: Soludo and Anambra’s alternative city space
Anambra State covers approximately 4,844 square kilometres of land, making it the second-smallest state in Nigeria after Lagos
When silence speaks louder than govt: Nigeria’s crisis of public communication
By Moruff Adenekan One of the most overlooked challenges confronting governance in Nigeria today is not the absence of policies, programmes, or public officials willing to speak. It is the absence of effective strategic communication. Across federal, state, and local government institutions, communication is too often treated as an afterthought rather than an essential component of […]
Widening the net: Akpodoro’s case for bigger, broader mandate for Tantita in N’Delta
By Sunday A. Onyewonsa When His Worship, Eshanekpe Israel Agimor speaks, the creeks listen. Popularly known as “Akpodoro,” the Head of the Association of Urhobo Mayoral Family Crown, AUMFC, and Mayor of Urhobo Land, carries the weight of two identities: an ex-militant leader who once knew the creeks as a theatre of conflict, and now a […]
