The African Energy Chamber has turned the coming Africa Energies Summit 2026 into something its organisers probably did not bargain for.
For a moment, I thought the demons of Abuja had seized President Bola Tinubu, one of the strongest advocates of state police.
When designed thoughtfully and implemented effectively, tax reform does more than generate revenue. It shapes economic behaviour and strengthens institutions.
This does not mean that state police are inherently doomed.
The idea of an impunity carve-out for judicial officers from this power of investigation of the CCB is contrary to the constitution.
Who could have believed that after the U.S. and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat itself as a farce?
By combining institutional memory from the previous system with forward-looking reforms, the NRS is building on experience while embracing change.
Every Nigerian lawyer now faces a moral crossroads: remain a custodian of justice or become a bagman of corrupt judges.
What appears easy in the short term compounds disaster in the long term.
A country in a life-and-death struggle with insecurity could ill have afforded such waste of experience and expertise.
