Drastic police reform under Tunji Disu
By GEB The newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tunji Disu appears to have started on the right path by inaugurating a committee to examine the framework for state…
Legal essence of Executive Order 9 on oil and gas revenues
By Tope Adebayo The decision by President Bola Tinubu to sign Executive Order 9, 2026, pursuant to Section 5 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as…
Ben Kalu, the LPDC verdict, and, the politics of manufactured scandal
By Chetachi Ikenga In Nigerian politics, there is a predictable moment in the rise of any consequential public figure. It is the moment when visibility becomes influence, influence becomes momentum,…
Why Dangote Refinery IPO must get it right
By Sola Oni Sir: It would be a grievous oversight to ignore the extraordinary resilience that brought the $20 billion, 650,000-barrel-per-day Dangote Refinery to life before considering the implications of…
National Assembly as our collective burden
By Steve Omolale Right from the days of the quarelsome Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the President, when governance at all levels was like a war, up till this very moment,…
How Appeal Court reset the PDP game
Sir: The immediate reactions that followed the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal on the disputed convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ibadan were entirely predictable. Within…
America-Iran War
By Abdu Rafiu What else can we say about war? War here, war there! Will war become the new normal in the life of man? The cause of war may…
Egbetokun’s reform agenda and the resistance of a system
By Isaiah Davies Ijele Leadership within Nigeria’s policing system has rarely been easy. Every attempt at reform inevitably collides with entrenched interests that benefit from the status quo. The tenure…
Fela’s Grammy Award: Canonisation of a ‘dissident’ superstar
By GEB An artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video of music legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, trending on social media and depicting the late icon receiving his Grammy Award, is a simple reminder of…