The burden of proof: A record-based review of Charles Omole’s Muhammadu Buhari’s biography, by Udu Yakubu
I am currently researching and writing an independent biography of Muhammadu Buhari – a project I commenced in April 2024 – and I recognise that this places me in…
Nigeria and the Supreme Court’s Emergency Politics, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“All judges are politicians whether they know it or not.” – Enrique Petracchi, former Chief Justice of Argentina, (2002). Among lawyers trained in the traditions of the Common Law, judicial…
Farewell to Professor Adamu Baikie, by Monday Philips Ekpe
This accomplished scholar, university administrator and public servant has left behind huge, definitive legacies, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE Aoiri Obaigbo, a distinguished alumnus of the University of Benin,…
Celebrating Dan Agbese, by Valentine Obienyem
The first time I heard of Newswatch magazine was in 1986. I was then in SS1. One of our auxiliary teachers who handled Literature-in-English, Mr. Job Okonkwo, walked quietly into…
National Insecurity: The trouble with Gen Dambazau’s treatise, by Tony Eluemunor
I read with an interchange of intense pleasure and intense pain, the insightful lecture which the much decorated Lt Gen (Rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau delivered on the 4th of November 2025. …
Dan Agbese: A boss and a friend, by Dotun Oladipo
There are two things I avoid when people I adore die: I don’t write tributes and I avoid their burial. Twice in the last few years I have broken the…
Matawalle: Judging a book by its cover, by Jack Okude
It’s all too obvious that Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence, is one of the most misunderstood public officials in the country. He was governor of Zamfara state…
The Akpabio Synthesis: An Uncommon Statesman at 63, By Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh
Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little and forgets even less. To survive…
Akpabio at 63, his telecom story; by Ken Ugbechie
Akpabio is not perfect, never laid claim to such. But he is true to himself. Like all mortals, he rises, he falls and picks himself up again. This tribute is…
Matters arising, by Abraham Ogbodo
First, let me confess that I am using an appropriated cover. I needed to drag this headline off the stable of the great Dr Olatunji Dare to meet up…