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Nigeria At 66: The Country We Each Carry
Femi Akintunde-Johnson On every Independence Day, Nigeria becomes a country of many countries. The flag is the same green and white, the national anthem is supposed to stir the same
THE INDEPENDENCE NIGERIANS NEED
Self-liberation is critical to both personal and national development, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE Most commentaries on the country’s 66 years of political emancipation from her erstwhile British imperial lords so
Presidential Leave: Between Constitutional Debate and Compliance
The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Introduction I wonder whether there’s any country in the world, where they do as much constitutional debating as Nigerians do! Every week, it’s a new
Insignificance of Presidential Attendance and Speeches: UNGA as Instrument of Great Power Politics
Bola A. Akinterinwa In Nigeria, there are two competing schools of thought on ‘Nigeria’s foreign policy behavior towards the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). One school
Of Godfathers And Restless Godsons
Femi Akintunde-Johnson Aex Otti has said something in Abia that sounds almost subversive in Nigerian politics: “I don’t want to be a godfather.” More unusually, he says that after completing
CANDIDATE SOWORE: REVOLUTION, MARIJUANA AND OTHER STORIES
PAUL C NWABUIKWU contends that though popular, Omoyele Sowore is not viewed by the electorate as a serious candidate Omoyele Sowore, eternal student activist and perennial presidential candidate, has been
U.S. Robotics in the Outer-Space and International Law: Revisiting Nigeria’s Outer-Space Programme?
Bola A. Akinterinwa The U.S. Airforce Secretary, Troy Meink, told the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on September 14, 2026 that the United States had deployed
Olu Jacobs: Gone Finally
Femi Akintunde-Johnson There is something almost perversely Nigerian about the way Olu Jacobs finally left us. For years, social media undertakers had been rehearsing his obituary. They killed him in
THE CLASH OF INTEREST
FCT minister’s Rainbow Coalition is a hybrid political strategy that advances the president’s interests but can undermine some of the All Progressives Congress governors’ fortunes, writes BOLAJI ADEBIYI The fireworks between
OUR OILY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Nigeria’s foremost political office seekers should elevate their quest, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE It’s not a surprise that our political leaders are fixated on oil matters. Ever before the present
