•Late former IGP, Solomon Arase For want of appropriate coinage, the passing of Dr. Solomon Ehigiator Arase on August 31, 2025 without mincing words, compounded my eternal mystery over the last 73 days. I had lost my immediate elder sibling, Ras Johnson Ikhide, the music activist, maestreo on July 19, 2025, whose sudden and untimely […]...
•Late Herbert Wigwe On Thursday, February 8, 2024, Herbert Wigwe, the iconic banking visionary, was in London. That evening, he made a call to his elder sister, Joyce Wigwe, a distinguished legal scholar who holds a Ph.D.from Stanford University, USA. Their chat was not just any conversation. It was deep, personal, nostalgic, of childhood memo...
•Natasha In the interpretive hierarchy of judicial pronouncements, it is an elementary but enduring principle of law that obiter dicta, however persuasive or pronounced from the loftiest judicial altars, do not assume the force of law. The binding component of a judgment is the ratio decidendi — that is, the legal principle or rationale underp...
•Sunny Onuesoke In recent times, conversations around economic rebasing have returned to the forefront of national discourse. Many governments, particularly in developing countries like Nigeria, are eager to announce updated GDP figures. But troubling signs abound: some of these figures are drawn from random databases, speculative projections,...
•A primary health care center in Nigeria Whenever Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, emphasises the need to invest in critical sectors such as primary health care, I find myself nodding in agreement not because of political affiliation, but because, as a public health professional, I underst...
•Senator Natasha I consider it a duty to draw the attention of the general public to the ongoing legal developments surrounding the judgment delivered by Hon. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on July 4, 2025, in the case instituted by the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Contrary to misleading public narratives, ...
•Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Since the suspension of the Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, by the Senator Godswill Akpabio-led 10th Senate on March 6, 2025, for gross misconduct, there has been a cacophony of voices and divergent views as to the propriety, constitutionality, a...
•Governor Umo Eno I have followed with keen interest the bold move by the Akwa Ibom State Government under Governor Umo Eno to institutionalise inclusive governance and dismantle long-standing barriers to opportunity for the people . Without a doubt, this effort is quietly redefining how citizens access public contracts through the newly activ...
•Tinubu The National Working Committee (NWC) and some governors and lawmakers of the All Progressives Congress have endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term, which the president reportedly accepted. Below are sampled opinions of some Nigerians on this decision by some APC top members, reports Saturday Tribune. Edris Amadu Tinubu’s endo...

