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The Rule of Law in contemporary Africa

April 18, 2025

By Toyin Falola It is a privilege to have been asked by the University of the Free State to give a Keynote Address on Thursday, April 10, 2025. This major

President inaugurates census panel, gives three-week deadline for report

April 17, 2025

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated a high-level committee on the forthcoming national population and housing census on Wednesday. The committee will submit an interim report within three weeks. The

Prof Niyi Afolabi: A Catholic visitor in Ogun’s grove

April 17, 2025

By Toyin Falola This piece is to celebrate the teaching award to be conferred by the University of Texas at Austin on Professor Niyi Afolabi, my colleague, on April 23,

Tinubu mourns Justice Sotuminu

April 11, 2025

President Bola Tinubu has extended his condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of the late Justice Ibitola Adebisi Sotuminu, former Chief Judge of Lagos State, who passed away at

REFLECTIONS: A decade without Oronto Douglas – A call to immortalise him

April 9, 2025

By Ipigansi Okumo “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time” – Henry Wadsworth

Resign as Petroleum Minister, Kila urges Tinubu

April 8, 2025

Renowned political economist and Commonwealth Institute Director, Prof. Anthony Kila, has called on President Bola Tinubu to resign as Petroleum Minister and take further action beyond simply changing the management

Promote Yoruba culture, tradition, Sanwo-Olu urges Alaafin

April 7, 2025

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has urged the new Alaafin of Oyo, Oba AbdulAkeem Owoade, to use his position to promote the historic Yoruba culture and tradition. The governor,

President, PDP governors mourn Olunloyo

April 7, 2025

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conveyed his deepest condolences to the government and people of Oyo State following the passing of Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, the former governor of the

In the twilight of time

April 7, 2025

By Olayinka Oyegbile The earliest form of healing substances had been herbal medicines, but with the advent of civilization … orthodox medicines have become the main and well recognized products

Court bars Akpoti-Uduaghan, Akpabio, others from media interviews

April 4, 2025

The Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja on Friday, restrained Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan; the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and others from granting media interviews while the suit filed by Natasha

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