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President Bola Tinubu signed the Electoral Act 2026 into law on February 18, 2026. The debates about how it got here and its surrounding controversy are legitimate, but they belong to yesterday. The more urgent question is what Nigerians do with the law they now have, and who they hold accountable for making it work.
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In October 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Nigeria Startup Act into law. The legislation promised to position Nigeria as a leading hub for digital entrepreneurship in Africa by offering ta
There is a stretch of water barely twenty-one miles wide, hemmed in between the rugged coastline of Iran and the shores of Oman and the UAE. In ordinary times, tankers laden with crude oil and liquefi
Few passages in world history have been as consequential for commerce and conflict as the Strait of Hormuz, and in the space of a single weekend it has once again demonstrated its capacity to destabil
The senate’s decision to re-amend the Electoral Act to accommodate electronic transmission of results, albeit without making it mandatory and with a fall back to Form EC8A in the event of network fail
On a recurring basis, headlines announce yet another corruption trial involving billions of naira allegedly stolen from public coffers. Current or former public office holders stand in the dock facing
In March 1978, Nigeria’s military government enacted what would become one of the most controversial piece of legislation in the nation’s history. The Land Use Act, promulgated as Decree No. 6 of 1978
For over two decades, Nigeria’s maritime sector has lived with a paradox. It generates enormous value, anchors the country’s oil and gas logistics, and sits at the heart of regional trade, yet Nigeria
Arbitration is widely promoted as a commercial dispute resolution mechanism built on party autonomy, confidentiality, speed, and procedural flexibility. Yet in Nigeria, as in many emerging arbitration
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