Abutu sworn-in as Federal high court acting CJ
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA- The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, today, swore-in Justice Daniel Dantshoho Abutu as the acting Chief Judge of the Federal high court. The CJN who performed the swearing-in ceremony in his chambers at the Supreme Court today, said that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had already okayed Abutu […]
‘How suspended Oredo LG boss withdrew N34.7m in two weeks’
THE Justice Godfrey Edokpaiyi Commission of Inquiry set up by Edo State government to look into the accounts of the suspended Oredo local government council chairman, Mr. Mike Ehima, was yesterday told how he withdrew N34.7million between November 20 and December 5, 2008, from the Local Government excess crude account despite the directive from the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who froze the excess crude accounts of the 18 local government governments in the state.
The way of nations
THE tragedy in Afghanistan continues with the massacre of 70 persons by NATO bombers for the crime of scooping fuel from two oil tankers, and the results of fraudulent national elections.
Four banks to raise N1.4trn bonds
FOUR of the five banks cleared by the Central Bank (CBN) three weeks ago have put machinery in motion to raise N1.4 trillion corporate bond from the capital market.
The ‘failed state’ and the ‘wasted generation’ theory
WITHIN the last decade, some strange words seem to have sneaked surreptitiously into the dictionary of social science or political philosophy.
Lubna’s story- Update and comments
LAST week, I wrote in support of Lubna Al-Hussein, a Muslim Sudanese journalist who had launched a protest against the Islamic conservatives who rule her country because she and some of her girlfriends had been arrested for “violating sharia values†and for “dressing indecently†(ie, for wearing trousers in public).
