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No Vacancy: How the Senate Booked the Next Parliament’s Rooms Before the Guests Arrived

very first-year law student learns that no parliament can bind its successors. A.V. Dicey wrote it down in 1885, and the English courts confirmed it in Vauxhall Estates (1932) and Ellen Street Estates (1934). A Parliament may legislate on anything except the freedom of the next Parliament to undo it. A parliament is a hotel, not a freehold: you check in, you make a mess, you check out, and you do not get to reserve the rooms for the next guests.

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Trump Issues New Birthright Citizenship Orders In Direct Defiance Of Supreme Court by Joe Patrice

After the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara that the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause means exactly what it says, and exactly what every court has agreed it says for over a century, Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum pledging that he would seek an immediate rehearing to reverse the decision. He didn’t have any basis for this, and even less of an argument for reversal, so the deadline for that motion came and went with no action from the White House.

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What You Do to the Dead, You Will Do to the Living: Still Disregarding Nigerian Bodies, Nearly a Decade On by Lawson Akhigbe

Remember Enya Egbe? The young medical student who fled his anatomy lab in tears after recognising the cadaver on the table as his friend Divine, bullet holes and all, the one they used to hit the clubs with? That 2017-ish horror story (the original piece landed amid the long shadow of such practices) was never just about one traumatised student or one unlucky night out. It was a mirror held up to a system that treats Nigerian bodies, living or dead, as disposable raw material. Fast-forward to 2026, and the reflection has barely fogged over. The disrespect remains the operating system.

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Dinner with the Devil (1975)

What’s the most underrated movie you’ve ever watched? Directed and produced by Oba Sanya Dosumu (the current traditional ruler of Owu), this is a highly celebrated pioneer piece of early Nigerian cinema. Shot on celluloid rather than modern video formatting, it famously gave the legendary veteran actor Enebeli Elebuwa his first major breakthrough role. It also starred Wole Amele …

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Philanthropy, Public Grants, and the Law: Decoding the Mechanics of the Dangote Refinery IPO Partnership by Lawson Akhigbe

When major corporate milestones unfold, they often bring complex legal questions in their wake. Recently, discussion has swirled around whether public-private partnerships involving state governments and philanthropic foundations to buy shares in the historic Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals Initial Public Offering (IPO) run afoul of corporate laws—specifically regarding a company financing its own shares.

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