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…
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…
Leah Sharibu: Forgotten In The Wilderness!
By Martins Oloja Incredible as it may sound, the captive of the terrorists, Citizen Leah Sharibu, The Guardian’s 2018 ‘Person of the Year’ the newspaper’s editorial board aptly as “A…
Ondo: Ayedatiwa and the march towards urbanisation
By Olu Ayela When Ondo State was carved out of the Western Region in 1976, the pomp and ceremony that attended the wise decision reached a crescendo. One, the old…
Watchdog And The Death Row Metaphor
By Segun Adediran The architecture of death row is not built of stone and steel, but of stagnant time. To be on death row is to live in the “After”—dead,…
Why Musa is winning war against insecurity
By Kennedy Elaigwu Awodi Sir: As I look across the landscape of our dear nation, Nigeria, I see a shift that many thought was impossible. For years, we were told…
Professionals urges FG to rehabilitates abandoned federal secretariat buildings in Lagos
The Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG), Ikoyi–Obalende Cell, has called on President Bola Tinubu to urgently facilitate the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the abandoned Old Federal Government Secretariat and…
2027 and Wike’s rainbow coalition
By Alabi Williams President Tinubu has again intervened in the troubled Rivers political space. This time, he is reported to have declared FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, the undisputed leader of…
Where is CCECC-CRCCIG Consortium bidder of 4th Mainland Bridge?
Silence prevails as preferred bidder fails to hit site three years on Three years after Lagos State government announced a preferred bidder for the Fourth Mainland Bridge, a Chinese civil…
Tinubu and Chagoury: The Medal and The Memory
By Sonala Olumhense Nigerians are a people of colour. Music. Dance. But the medal arrived like a thief in the night. No drums. No roll call of service rendered. No…