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Monday, September 22, 2025

Opinion

September 3, 2025

Dangote Refinery: One year, one refinery, a nation transformed

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hailed the refinery as “a remarkable achievement” and “a phenomenal project of our time.”

Dangote Refinery
September 1, 2025

Nigerian lawyers and borrowed robes of oppression

Our lawyers have long served power, not people.

A row of Nigerian SANs
August 31, 2025

Legal peril awaits Jonathan’s 2027 ambition

The former president should know that those importuning him for a tilt at the presidency in 2027 are clutching at withered straws.

Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
August 30, 2025

Ijebu State creation is democracy in action, not division

An Ijebu State would unlock unprecedented economic opportunities

Sarafa Tunji Ishola
August 29, 2025

Fare thee well, Nnaemeka Okwelume

Nnaemeka Okwelume dedicated himself to a thankless calling, where one sacrifices time and resources only to receive criticism and abuse in return.

Nnaemeka Okwelume
August 28, 2025

Nigeria’s top oil boss walking into a trap 

It’s fine if Ojulari fancies his task as raising the dead, but a long, distinguished list of his predecessors who tried were lunch for the beast.

Bashir Ojulari
August 25, 2025

Putin as the president’s medicine

Beyond Trump-Putin lovefest, Zelenskyy’s brinkmanship, and Europe’s indifference to genuine Russian concerns about being encircled, something must give for peace to take hold.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
August 25, 2025

Nigeria and the empty booth in Tokyo

Soft power is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Nigeria's empty booth at TICAD9 (Credit: Idris Ayodeji Bello)
August 24, 2025

Standing tall for Nigerian bar’s independence

Lack of independence is a congenital design flaw in the institutions of Nigeria’s legal profession.

Lawyers