The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill
Reflections on the 66th NBA Conference in Port Harcourt By Douglas Baye-Osagie The 66th Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will be remembered for many things. Not just the swearing in of the first elected female President of the Bar, Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, but also the quality of some […]
Tompolo and the echoes of Amaseikumor Festival
By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU April is a special month in the life of Ijaw people in any part of the world. It is special because April is the herald of the famous Amaseikumor Masquerade Festival in Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. The heraldic designation of April is occasioned by the yearly […]
Nigeria’s reforms are real; without fixing the plumbing, money will keep leaking
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves full credit for taking on some of the hardest economic reforms Nigeria has seen in a generation.
2027: Why Shehu Hassan Hussain must be re-elected
In Nasarawa federal constituency, Kano, the representation of MHR Shehu Hassan Hussain in the green chamber calls for re-election
If Nigeria borrows for development, let Nigerians see why
By Philip Obazee “Public debt is incurred in the name of the people. Public debt is serviced from resources that belong to the people. Public debt constrains future policy choices available to the people. Therefore, public debt must be explained to the people.” The Demand for Intelligibility Perhaps the most useful thing the Nigerian government […]
FG, Mutfwang set to reclaim Plateau as Nigeria’s tourism pride
In a bold push to rewrite Nigeria’s tourism story, Governor Caleb Mutfwang has teamed up with Minister of Tourism, Hannatu Musa Musawa to project Plateau State as the undeniable face of Nigeria’s beauty on the global stage.The renewed drive followed the signing of a high-impact Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, […]
Insecurity: Need for emergency intervention fund for Nigeria Police
By MATTHEW IBADIN This is an open letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I will start by thanking him for appointing one of Nigeria’s finest police officers, Tunji Disu, as the new Inspector General of Police. In one respect, this open letter is to help the new IGP to carry out a radical transformation of the […]
What JAMB candidates’ abduction says about Nigeria
By EBUKA UKOH A nation does not prove its strength in speeches. But the safety it guarantees to its children speaks volumes. As I struggled to come to terms with the news of the abduction of students travelling to sit the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination in Benue State, I watched interviews of survivors, […]
Between law and life: The grey realities of abortion in Nigeria
By ALU AZEGE In Nigeria today, a woman’s uterus is both a site of life and a battleground of law. The recent debate in the Senate over a bill proposing harsher penalties for abortion re-ignited a familiar national anxiety. Yet, in the midst of the tension, something important happened: the Senate demonstrated courage by stepping back […]
Do you have books or PDFs?
Reading lists have become mere rituals on the course outline. Students now buy books only when there is an implication. People’s libraries are now on their computers
Tejere Jolomi Thomas: Bringing integrity, strategy, humanity together in oil and gas sector
He is particularly renowned for his rare ability to bridge institutional objectives with grassroots expectations
