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Nigeria’s descent into perpetual emergency exposes the bankruptcy of its political elite, who recycle declarations of reform while presiding over a hollowed-out state.

Present-day Nigeria is a nation in worse peril

President Tinubu’s tenure has become a theatre of contradictions, marked not by vision or reform but by failures that expose the hollowness of his leadership

Showing the way: Lumkile Wiseman Nkuhlu, author of Purposeful Leadership For Africa in the 21st Century.

Are we ready for this vision?

Book about effective leadership makes the case for Africa’s path to sustainable prosperity

Bola Tinubu, President of Nigeria.  (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Talks between presidents of South Africa and Nigeria reveal synergies

The two countries are dealing with similar problems with different causes, and working together could help both

On the dotted line: A peace agreement between Ethiopian government forces and Tigray nationalists is signed in Pretoria, ending two years of civil war in northern Ethiopia and hopefully putting an end to the humanitarian crisis the hostilities have caused. Photos: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Ethiopia and Tigray make peace pact

It comes after two years of brutal conflict which has taken a high toll on the civilian population and seen thousands die

Protests are taking place in Ethiopia’s Amhara region an opposition stronghold.

Ethiopia’s warring parties meet for peace talks in South Africa

The Ethiopian government is unlikely to give in easily to the demands of the Tigrayan Liberation Front when negotiations intensify

Supporters of Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of Labour Party for the 2023 Presidential election hold a rally in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 1, 2022. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nigeria has been ruled by generals and gerontocrats and young people want change in the 2023 polls

With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Photo by Ting Shen-Pool/Getty Images)

Blinken heads to Nigeria facing calls to rethink ties

With 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and its largest economy, Nigeria is critical for any continent-wide strategy and successive US administrations have courted Nigerian…

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe. (Gallo)

The Bell Pottinger-linked ‘charity’ advised by ANC bigwigs

The Brazzaville Foundation, which has been accused of laundering the reputation of one of Africa’s most corrupt presidents

President Muhammadu Buhari. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

As Nigeria votes, Buhari moves from messiah to maligned

Nigerians must not put up with attempts by Nigerian President Buhari to steal the February 16 elections like his predecessors did, says the author

Abubakar comes from the Muslim-majority north, and his nomination follows an unwritten rule in Nigeria that the presidency should alternate every two terms between a candidate from the north and south. (Paul Carsten/Reuters)

Privatise Nigeria’s oil industry? Easier said than done

Atiku Abubakar, the main opposition contender, has vowed to break up the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, which he called a "mafia organisation"

Atiku Abubakar and incumbent Muhammadu Buhari (left) are the two frontrunners in Nigeria’s presidential race. (Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye)

Nigeria’s 2019 election: a two-horse race with uninspiring candidates

Despite the large number of aspirants for Nigeria’s 2019 elections, women and young people remain underrepresented

(Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

Buhari begins presidential election campaign

Voters go to the polls on February 16, four years after Buhari’s landmark victory

Members of Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress party protest the 2015 elections. More trouble is likely ahead of the 2019 elections. EPA/Tife Owolabi

Nigeria is not ready to hold free and fair elections next year. Here’s why

With the 2019 elections less than a year away, Nigeria’s ability to hold free and fair elections is open to question

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New panel to reboot SA’s African Renaissance status

The department of international relations is attempting to reclaim the country’s position as a major force on the continent

On Wednesday

Africa’s free trade fairy tale

A cross section of Africa’s most powerful people gathered in Kigali this week to sell a dream – and sell it hard

The Rwigaras

​Africa for pessimists: 2017 in review

This has been another tough year for the world, and the African continent has endured more than its fair share of conflict and crises.

People in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town have been managing water shortages for ages.

A quarter of the world will be African by 2050

Africa’s population is on the rise — necessitating increased investment in the next generation’s access to healthcare and right education.

Dangote Group founder and chief executive Aliko Dangote.

A billion dollar boost for Africa’s richest man

"When it comes to power to keep his massive cement factories running, the billionaire businessman says he prefers to generate it himself"

No diplomat: Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo lauds Rwanda and Ethiopia for their recent socioeconomic successes

Olusegun Obasanjo’s greatest fear

The former Nigerian president talks about the continent’s future, its failures and the youth explosion that keeps him awake at night

Mkhwebane: I must indicate

The answer to two of Africa’s biggest problems lies in its soil

The ties that bind Africans to their land need markets, credit and exposure to new practices so that young people can stay on their farms.