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UNGA 2026: When the Canyons reach our doorstep, by Dakuku Peterside

The real test of a United Nations speech begins on the journey home. The cameras are gone; the promises must find their way into decisions, budgets, and difficult conversations. Nigeria spoke at the 2026 General Assembly. What will it do with the words it carried to New York? On 22 September, António Guterres warned that […]

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Cobwebs, cockroaches and forgotten boxes: The silent decay of Mike Okiro’s Lagos Police Information Points

By OWOLOLA ADEBOLA Years after Sir Mike Mbama Okiro served as Commissioner of Police in Lagos State and later rose to become Inspector-General of Police, a quiet but telling symbol of institutional neglect stands along some of the city’s streets and junctions. The police information boxes he introduced during his tenure as Lagos CP — […]

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Mahama at the UN: Africa has stopped asking for permission, by Ejiro Ofoye

President John Dramani Mahama’s address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York was more than another presidential speech in the annual ritual of world leaders taking turns at the podium. It was an unusually broad statement of Africa’s grievances, ambitions and expectations of the international system. Delivered on September 24, 2026, against […]

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Why Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway (2), by Eric Teniola

This week continues the narrative on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. She resided in Odukpani Local Government Area, where she vehemently fought for the abolition of the ancient custom of killing twin children and their mothers. She built herself a two-bedroom mud house with a veranda, a store and a parlour. She called it a Caravan while […]

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