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United Nations can scrutinise Nigeria’s school abductions

United Nations can scrutinise Nigeria’s school abductions

By Wale Adewale Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has argued that the United Nations lacks the power to investigate the Oriire school abduction because it is a domestic security matter. That proposition sounds authoritative, but it is contradicted by both history and the United Nations’ own record. It is a […]
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Otunba Ayodeji Osibogun @70: The Man and His Legacy

Otunba Ayodeji Osibogun @70: The Man and His Legacy

By Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye Today, we celebrate a rare man. A leader. A father to a great movement. A pillar whose contributions to Yoruba land cannot be forgotten. My oga, Otunba Ayodeji Osibogun, CEO of Space FM (now Space Network), Otunba Obaloja of Ijebu land and the founding leader of the Yoruba Koya Leadership Training […]

Topical issues for corporate affairs in oil and gas industry – Dr. Tunde Oyadiran

Topical issues for corporate affairs in oil and gas industry – Dr. Tunde Oyadiran

Corporate affairs in the oil and gas industry occupy a critical role that extends beyond traditional public relations. They fuse strategic communication, stakeholder management, and regulatory navigation to create value and secure reputations. In today’s dynamic global environment, corporate affairs professionals must be agile, innovative, and perceptive in handling challenges such as environmental controversies, regulatory […]

The intertwined radiance of Margaret Ekpo, Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Ekotoro

The intertwined radiance of Margaret Ekpo, Margaret Thatcher and Margaret Ekotoro

By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU This is a benighted generation of distractions. In this generation too many things strive to govern our minds from the social media and cause a stray from the culturally ideal path. In this generation we are daily indoctrinated and radicalised to antagonise our indigenious cultures, be swiftly swept away and drawn into […]

China 15th 5-Year-Plan and Future of China-Africa Cooperation

China 15th 5-Year-Plan and Future of China-Africa Cooperation

By Tunde Rahman In 1985, the  American magazine  Newsweek reported that the number of high-rise buildings in Shanghai, China’s biggest commercial  city,  could be counted on the finger tips.   By 2005, 20 years later, when I had the first opportunity to visit Beijing and Shanghai as part of China-Africa Editors’ Delegation  touring  that Asian country, skyscrapers had  […]

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway crash and ‘Ember’ Months’ myth

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway crash and ‘Ember’ Months’ myth

By TAYO OGUNBIYI According to reports,  a police inspector and four others were killed in a multiple collision that occurred at the Kara Bridge area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The crash involved a mini truck laden with cartons of biscuits, a heavy-duty long truck, a 40-foot containerised trailer, another truck carrying sardines, and a tow truck. This […]

Lagos moves to deepen safety reforms amid urban, industrial growth

Lagos moves to deepen safety reforms amid urban, industrial growth

By Matilda Ikediobi Lagos State Safety Commission has urged safety practitioners, regulators and the private sector to improve safety culture and emergency response across the state, saying Lagos, as a rapidly expanding megacity, faces growing risks from urbanisation and industrialisation. The commission made this call at a one-day Stakeholders’ Forum on Safety and Emergency Response […]

Trump, Dangote and Nigeria

Trump, Dangote and Nigeria

By SUNNY IKHIOYA There is something we must all realise, no matter the punitive measures introduced by President Donald Trump and the United States government.   Things cannot be worse than the situation that we have found ourselves these past ten years. Indeed, as one of my Warri brothers told me: “the colonisation has eaten far deep […]

What is fundamental about the objectives and rights in the 1999 Constitution?

What is fundamental about the objectives and rights in the 1999 Constitution?

By AMINU JAHUN The realisation that a human being divested of basic rights could hardly effectively function in society led to the embedment of grund norms with grandiloquent terms and concepts, expressing the constitutional emphathy of  the ruling classes for the poorer classes. Like most democratic documents, Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution ( as amended) is studded with long- […]

House demolitions in Lagos State: Environmental protection or land grab?

House demolitions in Lagos State: Environmental protection or land grab?

By Osa Mbonu-Amadi  The recent spate of house demolitions across Lagos State, culminating most visibly in Oworonshoki, has stirred intense controversy, opposition, and public alarm. Lagos State Government insists these demolition exercises are imperative components of an urban renewal agenda focused on environmental safety, targeting illegal structures that obstruct waterways and impede drainage systems critical for flood […]