So the crowd that had been captured as party men at a political rally was in fact a football crowd in a football field! Oh yes, we were being done in with a photo trick! So when recently I read in the papers that there was going to be an Action Congress rally in Benin City and the PDP warned all and sundry that thugs would be imported into that arena and that the police should stop what might degenerate to a breakdown of law and order, I called my sister-in-law Safu who is a woman leader and told her what I had read in the papers.
THE coin in issue is Nigeria. A coin is said to have two sides, a head and a tail. The head does not and cannot make the coin; nor can the tail. We then usually say two sides of the same coin, meaning the head side and the tail side. I saw the Nigerian coin at work on October 23.
JUST last week, I was straining to present in a more palatable way the crass lawlessness we have exhibited in the operation of our laws. I wanted the proof of the pudding in that regard to be in the eating, more because I wanted to save face for us than that I had no facts and figures to back up the claim that we are an embarrassment to a world where the recognised method of accessing justice is through the rule of law.
The amnesty programme of President Umaru Yar’ Adua was a success. This is obviously his biggest achievement so far, even though in Nigeria it pays to withhold praise from politicians.
A COUNTRY would not be a country if it was not anchored on laws. But a country can be described as one without laws where it has laws that are not enforced or that are enforced more in the breach than the observance.
But there is one other way he can grant reprieve, and that is if the person pardoned was concerned … with any offence created by an Act of the National Assembly. All the offences in the Criminal and Penal Codes are Acts of the National Assembly for which reprieve may occasion either because the one being let off had been convicted by a court of law or he had been accused of committing such an offence. He does not even have to have been arraigned. Read section 175 (1) of the Constitution ten times.
We called ourselves Otu-Ibo and that has stuck to date
LET me reveal to you what went on in my mind when I read the unfortunate news about my friend Prof Tunde Adeniran being refused service on behalf of Nigeria as our ambassador to the United States of America because of what the son was supposed to have done.
Thereis increasing polarization of views about what they gave us and what we want. They refers to those who have governed this country, and we refers to the people, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The bone of contention is the Constitution in the context of what amendments the National Assembly wants to undertake and how qualified they are to do so.
GANI Fawehinmi has left this part of the world he has been on and in for 71 years. All there is to say is how he faired. And that has been demonstrated since Saturday, September 5 when he passed on after a lonAg battle with an ailment we know little about worldwide, and we have refused to do even the little we can about here.
