Paternity Palaver and Adeleke’s Compassion
By Abdu Rafiu In matters of human affairs, experiences and what have you bordering on what editors call human interest stories, reactions from readers are fast and sometimes they come…
Lessons On Standard Construction From GNI House Inferno
By Kunle Awobodu Lagos Island has the highest concentration of high-rise buildings in Nigeria. A tourist on a voyage with a landfall at Marina would gasp in awe. Why? A…
Faith And Traditional Leaders, Essential To Ending Gender-Based Violence
By Izeduwa Derex-Briggs Nearly every country in Africa has a law prohibiting violence against women and girls. Feminist movements have driven this incredible achievement, using their voices to spur governments…
The Myth in Nigerian Oil Business
By Nnamdi Okorie Sir: In late 2014, one of the most dramatic price shifts in petroleum markets unfolded. Brent crude, which had been trading above $110 per barrel mid-year, spiraled…
Re: Eye for eye — Maryam Bello
By Abdu Rafiu I found this advocacy difficult to swallow because of the uncommon degree of violence involved in killing a fellow human being. If a husband killer or wife…
In the house of ‘Mi Lord’, there are judgments
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Abdul Leigh Balogun became a judge of the High Court of Lagos State in 1976. In a career as a trial judge spanning 17 years and…
Abandoned mansion: Knowledge, history, intellectual legacy of S. L. Akintola in dust
By Daniel Ayantoye “We don’t enter that house. It is a powerful house. Don’t you know it belongs to a powerful person? Some people even say there are spirits there.”…
Internal rival Ogun towns clash over Eba Island oil rights, Ondo ownership clearers
After the Atijere community of Ondo State laid claim to Eba Island, two neighbouring towns in the Ogun Waterside Local Government of Ogun State, Ode-Omi and Makun Omi, have laid…
FRN v. CHIEF MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN: Activism, the price of conscience, and the theatre of persecution, when a State puts history on trial, and calls it justice
Human rights activism has never been a gentleman’s pastime. It is, by its very nature, an inconvenient vocation, one that unsettles power, interrogates authority, and stubbornly refuses to genuflect when…
Yoruba group rejects Ogun Govt claim of Eba oil drilling ownership, warns against land grabbing
*Faults renaming Olokola free trade zone *Wants Aiyedatiwa to reject scheme to compromise Ilaje ancestral land The Egbe Omo Ilaje, the umbrella sociocultural organisation of the Ilaje people, in Ondo…