September 11, 2024 0 Comments

Written by UGO ONUOHA   IN their heart of hearts even the most ardent supporters of Nigeria’s president know that Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu is contemptuous of Nigerians. But in fairness to him,

August 20, 2024 0 Comments

It was clear, even before the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris ended for Team Nigeria, the knives would be out very quickly for whichever head available for cutting off. The reported12 billion naira

August 19, 2024 0 Comments

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola At the beginning of March 2020, Nigeria’s Supreme Court  dismissed an application for the review of its seven-week old decision

August 19, 2024 0 Comments

Presiding and principal officers of the Senate, Nigeria’s highest legislative body, allocated billions of naira worth of constituency projects to themselves in the 2024 budget, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The projects, statutorily known

July 29, 2024 0 Comments

I was in Germany for the Humboldt Fellowship in 1996/97 at the University of Hamburg. A German scholar and I were engaged in a hearty discussion. Everything was going on well when he

December 5, 2023 0 Comments

The World Energy 2023 report has unearthed a staggering decline of 92% in Nigeria’s crude oil refining output over the past ten years, raising concerns about the country’s energy sector. From a robust

November 30, 2023 0 Comments

Corruption seemed intertwined with the evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state. It has been a malaise, a big elephant in the room, regularly talked about, loathed through synchronic rhetoric, but growing in systematic

November 23, 2023 0 Comments

By Chidi Odinkalu IN July 1977, the Organisation of African Unity adopted a Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa. It offered a definition of a mercenary to include someone who “is

November 23, 2023 0 Comments

I can only hope that this piece inspires us all to follow the lead of our esteemed ex-Excellency — Is that out of Òwu? I don’t know any equivalent in Ìbàdàn — and

November 10, 2023 0 Comments

Written by Barr. Fidel Albert I'll attempt a modest effort to respond to Prof. Yusuf Dankofa, a cerebral lawyer and law lecturer, who incidentally taught me Legal Methods in my first year at