Introduction Leadership is one of the most demanding responsibilities in human society because people are naturally created with different attitudes, perceptions, talents, levels of understanding, and ways of reasoning. A good leader must therefore possess wisdom, patience, courage, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking in order to successfully manage people and overcome challenges. Every society faces different kinds of difficulties, conflicts, misunderstandings, and pressures. As a result, leadership can not rely on only one method or strategy. There are situations that require firmness and courage, while there are others that require diplomacy, wisdom, patience, and deep thinking. A successful leader must understand when to act with the intelligence of a scholar and when to respond with the courage and firmness of a warrior, depending on the nature of the situation. True leadership is not measured only by physical strength or loud authority but by the ability to think deepl...

In the quiet, leafy streets of St. John’s Wood, London, there stands a three-floor mansion. It features an eight-car driveway, manicured gardens, and a private gym. To the British passerby, it is a symbol of elite success. To us in Northern Nigeria, it is a monument to our stolen future. While the "Aranda Overseas Corporation"—a shell company linked to Seyi Tinubu—was finalizing the acquisition of this £9 million estate, the people of the North were being asked to "endure" a different reality. As we go to press in 2026, that endurance has reached a breaking point. ### The Bitter Harvest of "Reform" The contrast is not just offensive; it is lethal. In Yobe, Bauchi, and Katsina, our people are now paying over **₦1,500 for a litre of fuel**. In our markets, the cost of a healthy diet has skyrocketed by over 119% in less than three years. While the sons of the powerful acquire London real estate with funds allegedly tied to a $1.6 billion fraud, th...

•PhD. Umar Ardo  There are moments in the life of a republic when the issue before it appears narrow, technical, even procedural - yet beneath the surface lies a constitutional question capable of shaping the future character of the state itself. Nigeria may now be confronting one of those moments.  2. The controversy surrounding the registration of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) by order of the Federal High Court, Lokoja, is not fundamentally about one political association. It is about whether constitutional requirements still matter in Nigeria, or whether institutions may selectively suspend legality whenever convenience, pressure or political calculations demand accommodation. 3. At the center of this controversy lies a simple but unavoidable question: can an association that did not comply with the constitutional and statutory requirements for political party registration nevertheless become a political party by judicial pronouncement alone? The answer...

WHY THE O.K. TICKET IS NOT OKAY Ali Abubakar Sadiq  The recent permutations in the polity are not by accident but by design. Let's look back a little. In 2019, under the PDP, Atiku Abubakar picked Peter Obi as his running mate. They challenged the then popular Muhammad Buhari and failed, after a good fight. Fast forward 2023, Buhari at the end of his second term must give room for someone from the South (the unwritten political constitution of zoning). Tinubu, despite Buhari and his collaborators in the APC, bamboozled everyone to clinched the ticket.  The most surprising thing was Obi declaring to run on his own ticket in 2023, and Atiku was naive enough to let him go. That was the single stroke that crumbled the opposition. But whose idea is it in the first place? One can n easily trace it to the pathological hatred of Obasanjo towards an Atiku presidency. With nostalgia, some of us could remember how such pathological hatred among elites led to the civil war in ...

OPINION: If Plateau’s Illegal Arms Factories Belonged to Fulani Militias, the World Would Be Burning By: Zagazola Makama  The discovery of another illegal arms factory in Plateau State should have shaken the conscience of the nation. But it did not. Not because the development was insignificant, but because it did not fit the preferred narrative carefully marketed for years by crisis merchants, foreign lobbyists, and politically interested actors feeding off the Plateau conflict. Imagine for a moment if troops had uncovered three illegal arms factories operated by Fulani militias in their harmlet in Plateau within three weeks. Imagine if security forces had recovered fabricated AK-47 rifles, welding machines, recoiling springs, ammunition shells and weapon components from settlements associated with Fulani groups. By now, international media would be flooded with headlines screaming “genocide.” Foreign NGOs would issue emergency alerts. U.S. lawmakers would hold hearing...

•Ph.D. Umar Ardo is the Convener of the League of Northern Democrats (LND) , a prominent political pressure group in Nigeria focused on national leadership renewal, regional empowerment, and structuring opposition coalitions. BE PROBABLY INFORMED ON THE NDC MATTER Let me educate ignorant Nigerians who have been castigating me on the NDC matter. Please read this with an opened mind.  No political association can be registered as a political party without filling INEC’s Form EC15A, which is INEC’s Party Registration Form. This form is online and an association pays a mandatory N2m Administrative Fee to be issued with INEC’s Access Code with which the association will open the portal and make its application. In the application it will upload the party name, acronym, logo, constitution, manifesto, names, addresses, ID cards, passport photographs, Indigene letters, etc. of its national executive members, address of national office headquarters, INEC’s payment recei...

As forwarded   Alhaji Babakano Jada stands as a leader par excellence and an elder statesman whose life is a testament to humility, generosity, and unwavering commitment to community. He is a father, a grandfather, a philanthropist, a community leader, and an industrialist roles he carries not for personal gain, but for the upliftment of those around him. Beyond his titles, Alhaji Babakano Jada is a bridge-builder who mends divides and a peacemaker whose counsel has calmed tensions and restored unity. His philosophy of leadership is rooted in service: always there to serve and not to be served, to give and not to take.  What sets him apart most is his enduring investment in people. For decades, Alhaji Babakano Jada has quietly sponsored numerous sons and daughters of Adamawa and beyond through their education and professional journeys. Today, many of his beneficiaries have risen to prominence as lawyers, administrators, politicians, doctors, engineers, educators, and leaders i...