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Nigeria’s Love Affair with Spraying Money

By Paul Chimodo By the time the talking drum rises and the master of ceremonies calls a name, the crowd already knows what comes next. Crisp naira notes appear from pockets and envelopes, fluttering through the air as guests step forward to spray celebrants at weddings, birthdays, funerals, album launches, political rallies, and graduation parties.

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Netflix Is Teaching Us Something About Distribution

By Paul Chimodo For years, discussions about Nigeria’s creative and business ecosystem have followed a predictable path. We celebrate talent. We highlight creativity. We speak endlessly about potential. From Nollywood to Afrobeats, from tech startups to fashion, the consensus is that Nigeria is bursting with ideas. Yet one uncomfortable truth remains largely unaddressed. Talent alone

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Police State or State Police? By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

On 26 November 2025, Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, announced in a statement personally signed by him that he had “decided to declare a nationwide security emergency” to be accompanied by some measures, including the recruitment by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Armed Forces of 20,000 and 50,000 new personnel respectively. In the

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Tinubu has a police palaver by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

When Olusegun Obasanjo returned as the president of Nigeria in May 1999, according to Mohammed Dikko (MD) Yusuf, a former Inspector-General of Police, (IGP) he “inherited a Police Force that was poorly equipped, decimated in numerical strength, deprived of necessary logistics, and lacking, as it were, moral and public support necessary for effective performance and the enhancement

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Op-Ed: On Whose Mandate Do Judges Stand? By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Atanda Fatayi Williams, the fourth Chief Justice of post-colonial Nigeria (CJN), has not always received the kind of credit that he probably should for a judicial career of impact. Few judicial careers in Nigerian history can compete with that of this grand-son of an Ijebu merchant in terms of both legacy and luminosity. Sworn in

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Akwa Ibom Tech Week 2025 Shows Uyo Is Ready for the Future

By Paul Chimodo When participants arrived at the CEEDAPEG Hotel in Uyo for Akwa Ibom Tech Week 2025, it was clear the event was more than a conference. Held from November 3 to 8, 2025, it brought together innovators, students, investors and policymakers to explore opportunities for digital transformation and economic growth. The theme, “Catalyzing

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Independent and Unaccountable: A New Code for Nigeria’s Judiciary

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Among the doctrines that underpin the legal process in Nigeria, few are as profound and pervasive as judicial independence, but no doctrine in the ecosystem of the law rivals its elusiveness. The idea is ubiquitous in the syllabus of every programme leading to the award of a degree in law, in political science or

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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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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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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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