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Nigeria must break free from this tragic cycle. We should be known as a nation that nurtures life, not merely as the final resting place of her dead. Achieving this...

The moment of revelation came unexpectedly on a high-speed train leaving Beijing, where a screen showed that 36 per cent of the train’s traction power came from wind energy. Outside,...

On 26 January 2009, Mamman Bello Ali died. He was the governor of Yobe State in north-east Nigeria. At around the same time, an anti-terrorism campaign by the government of...

When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion in the early hours of 13 June, most Nigerians were asleep. The footage came in fragments, precision airstrikes, sirens over Tel Aviv, defiant chants...

Born a prince but fashioned by the Gospel, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie stands today, at 89, as a colossus of the Catholic Church in Nigeria, a man whose life of...

Beneath the headline-grabbing migration figures lie deeply human stories, complicated by trade-offs that span continents and generations. I still remember the evening I first heard the term “Japa.” It came...

Two years can feel both fleeting and painfully long in Nigeria. Seven hundred and thirty dawns have rolled across the savannah, the creeks, and the sprawling megacities since the last...

In a nation rich with religious tradition and spiritual leadership, few figures stand as tall, both in stature and substance, as Most Rev. (Dr.) Alfred Adewale Martins, Archbishop of the...

In his inaugural homily as the 267th Bishop of Rome, Pope Leo XIV offered more than ceremonial words—he delivered a pastoral blueprint marked by humility, theological depth, and a compelling...

The election of Pope Leo the Fourteenth is a lesson to the Church and to the world. It is a call to return to structure, to sacredness, to spirit-led decision...