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What can Nigeria learn from China's electricity revolution?, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, July 8 -- 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... Read More


Israel-Iran conflict: Then Nigerian connection, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, June 23 -- 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, de... Read More


Lessons of Mokwa's disaster, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, June 16 -- When the clouds gathered above Mokwa at the start of the 2025 rainy season, no one reached for a weather almanac; the townspeople needed only memory. They had seen the river climb ... Read More


Japa: The courage and cost of Nigeria's great exodus, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, June 10 -- I still remember the evening I first heard the term "Japa." It came in the form of a meme - "If you're seeing this, pack your bags" - plastered over an image of a dusty road disapp... Read More


Can an American Pope speak to Nigerian realities?, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, May 12 -- When white smoke curled into the Roman sky and the world learned that the College of Cardinals had elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Pope Leo XIV - an American - it was met w... Read More


Choices,notchance: WhyChinaisrich,andNigeriaispoor, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, April 21 -- China and Nigeria, two continental giants that entered the late 1970s with similar per capita incomes, have since taken opposite economic trajectories. In China, the decisive mome... Read More


Rivers: A ticking time bomb, By Dakuku Peterside

Nigeria, April 14 -- Rivers State is currently facing a pressing and time-sensitive threat. The oil-rich state has come under intense political scrutiny following President Bola Tinubu's state of emer... Read More