As the sun sets on a monumental chapter in Nigeria’s political and moral history, the Lagos State Chapter of the Labour Party mourns the passing of one of our nation’s most enduring and revered statesmen, Pa Ayo Adebanjo. At 96, his transition…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
2025 has not been easy on Nigerians. The economy has looked far from bright; the weather has been suffocating; and cost of living has been stubbornly oppressive. With rising massacres in the Middle Belt, and Borno State in the…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
As he settled in to deliver the judgment of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on 2 April 2025, presiding judge, Wilfred Kpochi, felt obliged to get one ritual out of the way. Glancing left and…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Numan, the town that lends its name to one of the 21 Local Government Areas in Adamawa State in North-east Nigeria, is home to the Bwatiye (Bachama), a transnational identity group stretching into parts of Cameroon. Located in the basin…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
In Nigeria, history tends to repeat itself with unerring accuracy and in tiresome syntax. When he wrote his Report on the Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria and Administration in 1919, Frederick Lugard described Nigeria as an “anomaly…. of…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
IN THE WEEK in which former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai abandoned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to chart a different political trajectory with the Social Democratic Party (SDP), his son, Bashir, characteristically made it known that “Southern Kaduna residents will…
By O. M. Atoyebi, SAN FCIArb.(U.K)
CONTRIBUTOR: IDOWU JESUTOFUNMI Esq
INTRODUCTION
Free Trade Zones (FTZ) present both opportunities and challenges for national development and enhanced globalised trade between foreign investors and local businesses.[1] A free trade zone is any area in a Country where goods may…
By Chidi Odinkalu
Comprising five of the country’s 36 states, south-east Nigeria is the site of resilient atrocity. In the eight years from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2023, the monitoring coalition, Nigeria Mourns, confirmed about 3,000 killings in…
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“The judiciary…. has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have…
BY PROF MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN, CON, OFR, FCIArb, LL.D
INTRODUCTION
Is Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun legally recognised as such under our extant laws, or is he but a pretender to the throne (office of the IGP)? I shall attempt in this writeup…
