Politics Features

NGO–ATLANTIC–OYOROKOTO ROAD: GOV FUBARA’S BOLD PATHWAY TO THE BLUE ECONOMY

By Nelson Chukwudi In Andoni, a new road is emerging from the swamps, cutting through mangroves and waterways, stretching steadily toward the Atlantic Ocean. The 13.52-kilometer Ngo–Atlantic–Oyorokoto Road is far more than an engineering project; it is a bold declaration of purpose. It tells the story of a people long isolated by geography, and a

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Features Judiciary Politics

Senior advocates of no-consequence by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The ritual of the “Call to Bar” is the formal ceremony for the admission of new entrants into Nigeria’s legal profession. The responsibility for administering it resides in the Body of Benchers (BoB), a statutory entity described by law as “a body of legal practitioners of the highest distinction in the legal profession in Nigeria.”   The solemnity of

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Features Foreign

How Rivers Girls Are Lured, Trafficked and Exploited Abroad

By Sandra Kenneth A chilling investigation by Today FM has exposed shocking instances of human trafficking and sexual exploitation targeting young girls, some as young as ten years old. The report highlights how many victims are lured from Rivers State under false pretenses and trafficked abroad, particularly to Ghana, where they are subjected to inhumane

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Features Judiciary Politics

Supreme Enablers; Constitutional Outrage by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’ in Peter Archer & Andrew Martin (Eds), More Law Reform Now, 55 (1983) ​The judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 19 January 2006 concerning the state of emergency in Plateau State came down 20 months after the proclamation and 14

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Features Judiciary Politics

Nigeria: How Politicians Started Dashing Cars and Houses to Judges, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In January 1993, Ibrahim Babangida was Nigeria’s military ruler. He was supposedly in the last year of an interminable transition at the end of which he promised to hand over power to an elected civilian administration. Moshood Abiola was actively canvassing to inherit that mantle. As Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mohammed Bello was in

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Features Judiciary Politics

Legal peril awaits Jonathan’s 2027 ambition

By Chidi Odinkalu even years ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, Professor Raymond Atuguba, undertook a path-breaking study which sought “to move away from the perception that Justices of the Supreme Court dispense justice impartially under a constitutional democracy and reflect on the influences on

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Features General

Exams Go Digital But Is Nigeria Ready

By Paul Chimodo When the Federal Government announced that the West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council will go fully Computer Based by 2026, it sounded like a bold leap into the future. For a country that has long struggled with exam malpractice, delayed results, and the heavy cost of running paper tests,

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Sports Features General

A legacy larger than sport: Christian Chukwu (January 4, 1951 – April 14, 2025)

On 6 December 1977, Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s military Head of State, received a group of young men from the east who had come to present him with a trophy won in the field of football contest against the rest of Africa. They were members of a football team known as Rangers International Football Club of Enugu. 

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Features General

As Another Judge Seeks to Suffocate the People of Nigeria

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu ​Three different decisions of the highest court in the country over the past two decades illustrate how the judicial conspiracy against popular sovereignty in Nigeria has prospered. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that elections in Nigeria are not governed by any foundational or legal principles. In other words, Nigeria has no legal standard for a free, fair or

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Nigeria: Ending the afflictions of age falsifications by Judges, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

“The mind grows old, no less than the body.” Aristotle, The Politics, Book II, Ch. 9, 146 (Penguin Classics, 1981) A little over two decades away from its perception as a shrine for the resolution of the most rarefied disputes in the country, the Supreme Court of Nigeria played host to a Nigerian drama. With

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