NIGERIAN PRISONS: From Correctional Centres to Criminal Hideouts

  Nigeria’s correctional facilities, ostensibly designed to rehabilitate offenders and protect society, have instead become operational hubs for criminal activities, according to recent revelations that expose the systemic rot within…

Shadows of Insecurity: Kidnapping, violent crimes crippling the South-East

  In recent years, the South-East region of Nigeria – comprising Imo, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Abia states – has been engulfed in a dark narrative of kidnapping and rising…

NCAA suspends licences of 10 private jet operators

  The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority has suspended 10 private jet operations over failure to begin the recertification process. This is contained in a statement signed by the Director of…

Why Federal High Court And National Industrial Court Lacks Jurisdiction To Determine Chieftaincy Matters

By Femi Falana SAN In the last one week, the Federal High Court and the National Industrial Court have separately conferred jurisdiction on themselves to determine chieftaincy matters. Both decisions…

EXPLAINER: Why court order stopping Sanusi’s reinstatement can’t stand

Please note that this explainer was first published on 27 May, 2024. By Pascal Ibe The order from a Federal High court to halt the reinstatement of Sanusi Muhammadu Sanusi…

Train attack: Buhari meets security chiefs

  President Muhammadu Buhari has met behind closed doors with security chiefs a few hours after Monday night’s terrorist attacks on Abuja-Kaduna bound train by bandits. The News Agency of…

FG’s Move To Borrow From Unclaimed Dividends, Dormant Accounts

By Abba Dukawa President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2020 Finance Act on December 31, 2020. The administration has perfected ways to borrow funds from unclaimed dividends and dormant bank account…

Life and times of Maradona

The whole world was thrown into mourning following the demise of football legend and Argentine hero, Diego Armando Maradona. Maradona spearheaded Argentina’s exploit in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico…

TIMELINE: 4 years and still counting… how ASUU strike has affected students since 1999

Incessant strike actions by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have become the new normal in Nigeria’s educational system since 1999. It won’t be an exaggeration to say that…

EXPLAINER: What is this ‘Arabic sign’ on the naira all about?

The federal government, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and attorney-general of the federation (AGF) are battling with a suit filed by Malcolm Omirhobo, a Lagos-based lawyer, seeking the removal of…

The fat pension of ex-Lagos governors Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode [Details]

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu struck the right chord today when he announced he would submit a law very soon abolishing what critics have called the obscene pension package of former Lagos…

Hike: Electricity consumers to pay N417.09bn in four months

Following the recent increase in electricity tariffs , the 11 distribution companies in the country are allowed to collect a total of N 417. 09bn from their customers from September…

Magu: How not to be EFCC boss

.By Aremu Lukman Umor There was a time when the suspended chairman of the Economic andFinancial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was a ‘Magun’ toNigerian looters and scammers. That’s a…

RULAAC: Imo Police Command and the climate of impunity

. As group petitions CP, urges audit of personnel A civil society organisation, Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr.…

COVID-19: Diagnosing the implications of its outbreak on performance of contractual obligations

.By Owolabi, Yusuf Olatunji 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION The implications of the outbreak of the pandemic, codenamed “COVID’19” to businesses all over the world cannot be overemphasized. Businesses world all over…