A proposed amendment to Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2022 has ignited vigorous debate among legal experts, politicians, and civil society groups. Titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Electoral Act 2022 to Make it Mandatory for All Nigerians of Majority Age to Vote in All National and State Elections and for Related Matters,” the bill was introduced by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajudeen.…

Four decades ago, Hiroko Suzuki’s father navigated the challenges of a U.S. trade war by shifting the family auto-parts business, Kyowa Industrial, into niche products. Now, tariffs imposed by the Trump administration threaten her own attempt to diversify the 78-year-old company into medical devices. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has labeled the U.S. tariffs, including 25% on automobiles, a national crisis for Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy. Meanwhile, Japan’s top trade…

Deloitte has warned staff that it will slash bonuses and scale back hiring in response to a slowdown in profits this year. The accountancy giant unveiled the cost-cutting plan in an email to UK staff as bosses said they were responding to an underwhelming performance across its audit and consulting business. The senior partner at Deloitte’s UK,Richard Houston told staff that the firm’s consulting arm had “faced a particularly challenging…

While Millennials bemoan house prices and Gen Z laments the toll of social media, another generation trudges on largely unnoticed—and undeniably strained. They don’t make viral TikToks. Few podcasts or documentaries dissect their anxieties. And no one seems to be crying for them. But perhaps they should. Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, is arguably the most squeezed, most sidelined, and most systematically shortchanged cohort alive today. A growing…

The United Kingdom and the State of Israel share a deeply entangled history—one that is rooted in colonial legacies, wartime diplomacy, and a shared commitment to democratic values. Over the decades, the UK-Israel relationship has evolved through phases of tension, pragmatism, and strategic alignment. But recent events in Gaza have tested this long-standing alliance like never before, with Britain joining a growing list of countries reassessing their support amid mounting…

Ondo State, one of the safest states in Nigeria’s southwestern region, is fast becoming insecure for citizens, losing its reputation as a sanctuary of calm to an environment eroded by rampant kidnappings, occurring both day and night, with alarming frequency. While many are yet to get over the June 5, 2022, mass shooting at St Francis Catholic Church in the Owo Local Government Area of the state, kidnapping activities, which…

Rúben Amorim has moved to clarify his future at Manchester United, insisting he has no plans to quit the club despite a turbulent Premier League campaign and mounting speculation about his job security. The 39-year-old Portuguese manager, who took charge earlier this season, was speaking at a UEFA media briefing at Old Trafford ahead of United’s Europa League final clash with Tottenham on May 21 in Bilbao. Amorim stirred headlines…

By Kayode Adebiyi History has always been unkind to visionary leaders—at least in their own time. They dream in decades while their people struggle in days. They build for generations while their critics complain in the moment. But if history teaches us anything, it is that nations that succeed are led by those bold enough to think beyond present discomfort and into a future of possibility. My last trip back home…

Teachers, parents and even student leaders have commented on the recent poor performance of candidates in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, blaming the government, the candidates, parents and even the society at large for the situation. Reactions have continued to trail the poor performance of candidates in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, in which about 75 percent…

Top Iranian and Umited States negotiators had resumed talks to address disputes over Tehran’s nuclear programme in a push for progress as Washington hardened its stance ahead of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit. Though Tehran and Washington both have said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the decades-long dispute, they remain deeply divided on several red lines that negotiators will have to circumvent to reach a new nuclear…

The recent release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results has, once again, sparked widespread concern. Out of approximately two million candidates who sat for the exam, over 1.5 million failed to attain the benchmark score of 200 out of 400, which is 50% of the total. This outcome has sparked further debates about the difficulty of the examination, the declining standards of education in Nigeria, and the…

With the Catholic world awaiting the election of a new pope following the death of Pope Francis, a quiet but pressing question lingers beneath the surface: what happens if the conclave fails to elect a new pontiff promptly? Who leads the Church in the absence of a spiritual head? The period between pontificates is known by the Latin phrase sede vacante, meaning “the seat is vacant.” During this time, the…