Monday Column

Africa Must Catch Up by Creating an AfCFTA Cultural Visa for Afrobeats

By Elizabeth Jacobs Afrobeats is one of Africa’s most powerful modern exports. It has crossed borders with ease, reshaped global pop culture, and given African...

Sharia Law, customary law, and Nigerian State: Why abolition is neither constitutional nor practical

Guest Columnist By Odey-Agba Itite Emmanuel   There is a call in some quarters for the prohibition of Sharia law in Nigeria. While such arguments may...

Policing beyond politics: Implications of the presidential push for State Police

Guest Columnist By DSP Adamu M. Muhammad (Rtd)   Pre‑independence and post‑independence Nigeria have witnessed similar arrangements. During the First Republic, Native Authority Police and Local...

An open China for a shared future

Guest Columnist By Yu Dunhai Not long ago, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was convened...

Parliamentary screening and role of salutes, bows in military tradition

Guest Columnist By Sani Kukasheka Usman The recent screening of the newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs by the Nigerian Senate once again...

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