Coups Cannot Deliver The Freedom Africa Needs
By Samuel Sodunke In the past five years, Africa has experienced nine successful military coups in Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Sudan. Disturbingly, some Africans, despite their painful…
FRSC, police command punish lawlessness on Lagos-Ibadan Exp
By PEB Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, running through Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states, has become a nuisance to motorists. Data from the Federal Road Safety Corps indicates that as of October 2025,…
Budget 2026: Matters Arising
Finally, there is hope that the 2026 Federal Government budget will be presented to the National Assembly this week or before the year runs out. Many states have presented their…
State Police And The Doctrine Of Necessity
By Segun Adediran At last, an advocacy of more than two decades is coming to fruition. On September 23, I took a bet in an opinion published here on President…
Tinubu’s Paperless Box And COP28 Mandate
By Stephen Angbulu Back in primary four, my Social Studies teacher, Aunty Toyin, told us a story about a little girl who got punished by her father for wasting a…
Campaign Of Calumny Against Pipeline Protection Contract
By Federal Ebiaridor In the twilight of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the theft of the nation’s oil resources had assumed a suffocating dimension. The effect of the daily theft of…
State Govts Should Let LGs Breathe
By Sheriffdeen Tella The state governments have a way of suffocating the third tier of government, the local government. Of course, that is not unexpected as the local government chairmen…
The President’s Palliatives
By Abiodun Komolafe Not long ago, Adeola Olatunde (not his real name) fell ill and was admitted to hospital. At a point, his condition became so critical that help had…
Supreme Court On Nwaoboshi’s Case: Reason To Reform EFCC
By Leroy Chuma Edozien My eyes welled up as I listened to the judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in the appeal filed by distinguished Senator Peter Onyelukachukwu Nwaoboshi (SPON)…
Two Supreme Courts and danger of self-delegitimisation
By Emmanuel Ogebe NIGERIA’s Supreme Court sparked near universal outrage when it recently awarded senatorial candidacies to two powerful politicians who had not participated in party primary elections. The verdicts…