Completing abandoned uncompleted buildings for habitation carries major safety and financial implications including structural degradation and high renovation costs. To ensure the buildings are safe for use after their completion, the issue of structural degradation and others must be adequately addresed, according to construction experts.

The bell for political campaigns for the 2027 Elections went off last week. Already cauldrons of political abracadabra are boiling over. Surrogates and infradigs down the political ladder have started throwing stones, giving clear but ominous signals that things could get a lot messier and the air more fouled up in the days and months […]

Former Vice President and African Democratic Congress’ presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s claim to the limelight in the immediate aftermath of the commencement of the campaigns for the 2027 presidential election has proven to be temporary after all. He seemed to have galvanised the public imagination in a sudden burst of energy. It was as […]

The combined opposition parties seeking to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election are merely displaying the usual reflex of our political culture. Hardly has any presidential election taken place in Nigeria’s history without attempts being made by the combined opposition to try this old trick, especially against an incumbent president seeking re-election. […]

”And it will be in a happy position of judging from the high standpoint of accomplished fact”, John Buchan A landmark event will take place in Abuja on 14th September, 2026 at the NAF Conference Centre, Ahmadu Bello Way, Kado. It is the launching of a book in commemoration of Brigadier Musa Usman, first Governor […]

Dolly Parton has never governed a state, controlled a public budget, or commanded the machinery of government. Yet her life offers Nigeria a timely lesson: leadership is measured not by the grandeur of office, the length of a convoy, or the volume of publicity, but by the durable good created for others. Parton turned fame […]

This week, we continue  the series on why the House of Chiefs should be considered by the National Assembly.  In conclusion of their report, Section 37 states that (a) “The Governor may consult the State Council of Chiefs as a body in the exercise of his powers in relation to the maintenance of public order, […]

There are moments when an institution must pause—not necessarily because it has acted unlawfully, but because a particular decision raises deeper questions about judgment, standards and institutional identity. The decision to invite Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, as a panellist at the Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference has generated considerable debate within […]

Nigerians paying close attention to the emerging 2027 presidential campaign would by now have the sense, as I have, that this election will be very different from previous ones. We are only a few weeks in, no doubt, but it seems clear enough that this election will be fought on policy and strategic voter engagement. […]

If a labour leader has to make a choice between obeying the laws of the country and court orders on one hand, and defending the rights of workers on the other, can there be a democratic choice? That was the question I set out to answer in Abuja on August 21, 2026 at the workshop […]

By Tochi Okafor I recently had a conversation with a woman that stayed with me. She told me about a night when she turned to her husband and said she could not keep nursing the baby until dawn. She needed sleep. Real sleep. She simply wasn’t feeling like herself. He stepped in that night, and, […]

Uhuru, a Swahili word which means “freedom or independence” was popularized by Kenyan nationalist and leader Oginga Odinga who used it in the title of his 1967 autobiography, “Not Yet Uhuru “. The phrase was used to express the fact that “a long-fought struggle or goal is incomplete, even if nominal independence or a milestone […]

Immediately after the 2023 general elections, many politicians began illegal electioneering campaigns for the next set of elections scheduled for 2027. All efforts to remind them that they were abandoning governance which is the real essence of democracy and which should naturally follow elections failed. The truth however is that those cosmetic gestures across the nation […]

Let’s begin by giving glory to God that we are alive to witness the last Sunday in the month of August. Lamentations 3 vs. 22 ( KJV) “ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because its compassions fail not”. Beloved, you and I are beneficiaries of the Lord’s mercy and compassion.  […]

“Let justice be done, though the heavens fall” – Lord Mansfield, 1705-1793 “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side” – James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Until now, there was no reason to raise the question about substantial justice untainted with […]