•Dr Nnimmo Bassey No matter the reason for warfare, the environment and the innocent end up bearing the brunt of the inevitable destruction. This fact is clearly illustrated by the several ongoing smoldering and open conflicts that have led to this season being described as one of endless conflicts and violence. Many of these conflicts [&helli...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio To inquire — often with a faint hint of derision — about the legacy Senator Godswill Akpabio may bequeath as President of Nigeria’s Tenth Senate is to display a troubling indifference to recent legislative history. The record is neither obscure nor equivocal. Under his stewardship, the Senate has passed...
•Acting Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu The recent abduction of 177 worshippers on Sunday from ECWA Church and Cherubim and Seraphim Churches 1 and 2 in Kurmin Wali community, Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has once again forced the nation to confront a disturbing and persistent question: what exactly is the motive behin...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio There’s a trend in Nigeria where accusations are louder than the coin box, and everyone scrambles to the high ground of moral outrage. Yet, here comes Senator Godswill Akpabio, the President of the 10th Senate, going against the trend like a devoted monk who has decided that the usual script of [&hellip...
•IGP Egbetokun and Sowore Today’s judgment stands as a loud constitutional warning against the abuse of state power in Nigeria. Justice M. Kakaki of the Federal High Court Lagos, has in a judgement delivered and read for one hour and thirty minutes, ruled against the Commissioner of Police of Lagos, CP Moshood Jimoh and the […]
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio In the evolving story of Nigeria’s democratic consolidation, few issues have provoked as much intensity as electoral reform. The signing into law of the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2026 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marked another chapter in this journey, drawing applause, skepticism, and fi...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio Nigerian politics is not for the faint-hearted. It is noisy, dramatic, and often unforgiving. In a space where rumours travel faster than facts and headlines are written before the full story is known, substance can easily be drowned out. Real governance — the slow, patient work of building consensus, followi...
•Akpabio and Natasha The judgment of the Court of Appeal delivered on Monday, February 9, 2026, represents a consequential affirmation of the constitutional principles that sustain Nigeria’s democratic order and the orderly functioning of its institutions. By upholding the disciplinary actions of the Senate as lawful and procedurally sound, th...
•Late Sheikh Abubakar Abdullahi When the Nigerian government publicly mourned the death of Imam Abubakar Abdullahi in January 2026, it did so with language that was humane, dignified, and deserved. The Chief Imam of Nghar village in Plateau State had died at the age of 92, and he was remembered for an act of rare […]
•Amb. Bianca Ojukwu and Gov. Chukwuma Soludo Eventually, Bianca Ojukwu chose the wrong option — slamming the sanctity of Igbo culture, upsetting the senses of believers in the people’s ethos and daring the consequences. Instead of apology or remorse, she now appears to be priming for a fight. And one dares ask: Fight with who, […...

