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Does Nigeria Miss Fela, other activists enough?
Jul 30, 2026
BY PAUL EJIME Odoo is a business management software suite developed in Belgium. But its advert billboard often reminds me of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s popular song with the…
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Does Nigeria Miss Fela, other activists enough?
BY PAUL EJIME Odoo is a business management software suite developed in Belgium. But its advert billboard often reminds me of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s popular song…
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Beyond the GDP numbers: Why Soludo’s ‘8 percent’ remark misses the point
Jun 4, 2026
BY ANTHONY EJIOFOR Governor Chukwuma Soludo is one of Nigeria's most accomplished public intellectuals. As a former central bank governor, economist, professor, and now governor of…
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NGO, lawyer approach ECOWAS court to challenge party sponsorship requirement in Nigerian elections
Apr 19, 2026
By Mercy Olatayo The Centre for Community Law and Amos Osaigbovo Enabulele, a professor of international law, have filed a suit before the ECOWAS community court…
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Amupitan and the Ruse of Law
Apr 4, 2026
Amupitan and the Ruse of Law By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In Nigeria, every act of political grubbiness sooner or later ends up before the courts. The…
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In Nigeria, A Judge is Not Above or Beyond Investigation
Mar 8, 2026
In Nigeria, A Judge is Not Above or Beyond Investigation By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you…
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Ezekwesili Urges Nigerian Senate, Political Class to “Stop Playing with Fire
Feb 6, 2026
*A Public Memo By Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili* The wisest and free advice that the Nigerian Senate, as well as the House of Representatives, can receive from…
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The Trouble with Peter Obi’s Promise of a Single-Term Presidency
Feb 4, 2026
In Nigerian politics, ideas often travel faster than the hard arithmetic of power, and few recent propositions illustrate this disjunction more clearly than Peter Obi’s oft-cited…
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Voters Card is more potent than guns
Jan 14, 2026
This year, 2026, marks approximately 56 years since the Biafra/Nigeria fratricidal war officially ended in 1970. The scars of that unfortunate war still fester till this…
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The Supreme Court’s Emergency Politics
Dec 21, 2025
“All judges are politicians whether they know it or not.” Enrique Petracchi, former Chief Justice of Argentina, (2002). Among lawyers trained in the traditions of the…
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Pardon Me?!
Oct 19, 2025
In September 1887, Harry Johnston, Acting Consul of the Oil Rivers Protectorate (Niger Delta) procured the arrest in the wharfs of the Niger Delta of King…