In an era scarred by division, where echo chambers amplify discord and borders harden hearts, tolerance emerges not as a mere virtue but as the indispensable elixir for harmonious living. Yesterday Sunday, 16th November 2025, the International Day for Tolerance, we were called to reaffirm this truth: embracing differences isn’t weakness-it’s the bedrock of resilient societies.  Tolerance, […]

A legislative framework to tackle sexual harassment in Nigerian schools and tertiary educational institutions has passed a critical stage at the National Assembly. Titled: “Sexual Harassment of Students (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill 2025 (HB. 1597)”, it is capable of minimising the scourge of abuse that has helped make nonsense of our educational system. The Bill […]

On Wednesday, 5th  November 2025, contractors being owed by the Federal Government descended on the grounds of the National Assembly in protest over their unpaid backlog of contractor debts. Led by their President, Jackson Nwosu, the All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria (AICAN), claimed that the Federal Government owed them N3 trillion “verified debts”. According to […]

Dangote Refinery last week withdrew its N100bn suit which it had filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja presided over by Justice Mohammed Umar, following the 15 per cent new tariff imposed on imported petroleum products by the Federal Government. Dangote had filed the suit after the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMPRDA) […]

During his Senate confirmation interview as the new Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Olufemi Oluyede made far-reaching recommendations towards restoring the efficacy of the Nigerian armed and security forces to enable them effectively defend the nation and protect its people as they used to do. At a time when the country is besieged by security challenges […]

We join millions of concerned, patriotic Nigerians to reject any form of foreign intervention in our security situation. We fully understand the sentiments behind US President, Donald J Trump’s threat to invade Nigeria, “guns-a-blazing”, to “wipe out” Islamic terrorists killing Nigerians under several guises, such as Boko Haram, Fulani militants and “bandits”. In the first place, Nigeria […]

All are set for the Anambra State Governorship Election tomorrow, Saturday 8th November 2025. This election is special in at least two ways. Anambra is the first of the eight states that conduct their governorship elections outside the nation’s general elections ambit. The others are: Bayelsa, Edo, Ekiti, Kogi, Ondo, Osun and Imo. Secondly, this […]

Once again, the nation mourns. Last week, in Essa community, Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State, tragedy struck as no fewer than 57 Nigerians lost their lives in yet another tanker explosion. Many others sustained severe burns in an incident that, sadly, mirrors a recurring national tragedy. According to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), 1,531 […]

The recent call by Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, for state governments to take up the challenge of providing power to residents of their states is well placed. The surprise is that some of our states need to be pushed to do this. For decades, the calls for decentralisation of electric power fell on deaf […]

The need for an Act to regulate the manufacture, use and control of plastic products (polyethylene and polypropylene) has dawned on the House of Representatives, leading to the creation of the Committee on Preparedness for Single-Use Plastics Ban in Nigeria. According to the Committee’s Chairman, Terseer Ugbor, a Bill to that effect is in the […]

The National Assembly is proposing an amendment to the Electoral Act 2022 to abolish the current arrangement of staggering our general elections and instead consolidate them on one day. If this amendment is passed, the Presidential, Governorship, National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly elections will be conducted on the same day. Indeed, the federal lawmakers have […]

With the staggering statistic that every 33 minutes a life is lost in Nigeria to suicide, it has become urgent to open national conversations about suicide and mental health. The growing trend signals not just individual tragedies but a national emergency. As Professor Taiwo Lateef Sheikh rightly observed, “mental illness is part of suicide, but […]

The Federal Government has been reacting correctly to overtures by the United States Government to temporarily uptake its non-Nigerian deportees. Last week, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, issued what appeared like a final rejection of the offer. In implementing his deportation of illegal and undocumented migrants, the US President, Donald Trump, had approached […]

Insecurity is clearly getting beyond the capacity of our elected leaders to confront. While some state governors have settled for appeasement of the bandits, Fulani militants and terrorists in their domains, some have tried to tackle it with law making, as if that alone can solve the problem. Yet others have established and trained vigilante […]

On Thursday, October 24, 2025, Joash Amupitan, a Professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, assumed office as the 13th Chief Electoral Umpire of Nigeria and the 6th Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Like most of his predecessors, Amupitan comes very highly recommended. The initial anxiety that President Bola Tinubu […]