Recently,  the law firm of Bamidele Aturu and co. presented its  annual Law and Social Development Lecture series with the theme: “Corruption and the Law: A case of unequal justice”, presented by Dr Sam  Amadi.  Mr Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika examined the paper as presented below By Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika Dr Sam Amadi has made a very good […]

Dear Fellow-Nigerians,President Umoru Musa Yar’Adua may go down in history as the just Pharaoh that “facilitated” the emancipation of the Niger Delta [something the Balewas, Babangidas, Abachas, and Obasanjos tried, in vain, to achieve] by simply listening to the true representatives of the region’s peoples and having the political courage to address the fundamental challenges of the region…or, at least, that is what we are all praying that he does…if the hawks in his kitchen cabinet will let him!

I HAVE recently, on two occasions, praised Mr President for his new Niger Delta initiatives. And I’ve been amazed by the number of sour comments I’ve received.

THE National Economic Council (NEC) must have intended to impress Nigerians with news that former President Olusegun Obasanjo squandered N200 billion of the Ecological Fund. So what is next? If someone is known to have, squandered public funds, no matter what the funds were for, are there no sanctions? Is the law silent on what […]

I know the fear of some people is that the president may nominate his stooge or surrogate. l do not envisage this, except such a person is not a man of integrity. However, l would have preferred a situation in which we have some of our retired judicial officers like retired justices of the Supreme Court or Court of Appeal.