‘Guest houses for Senate President, Deputy wasteful’
By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN—A BENIN- based legal practitioner, Mr. Olayiwola Afolabi, has faulted the move by the Senate President, Senator David Mark and his deputy to have guest houses built for them in Abuja with billions of naira of tax payer’s money as ridiculous and a waste of public fund.
Confronting the curse of an oil city
Anybody who has any structure on the land without lawful government certification is an illegal squatter. What the state government offered to pay was technically not compensation but simply a commercial bonus to encourage the squatters to go and live a normal human life among normal human beings.
Govt must fix the economy before deregulation — Mahmoud, SAN
Mr Abubakar Mahmoud (SAN), is our guest for the week. In this interview, he spoke on the controversy trailing the delay in passing into law the Freedom of Information bill still pending before the National Assembly and concluded that the lawmakers must urgently act on the bill, realising that FOI is a human rights issue. […]
NJC at 10 and challenges ahead
By Innocent Anaba The fear of NJC is the beginning of wisdom for judicial officers, particularly judges of superior courts of record. Any memo, query or invitation extended to a judge by the NJC is always received with apprehension, particularly when such memos are related to complaints of wrong doing or impropriety. Set up by […]
Stopping violence against women, 10 years after (2)
By Itoro Eze-Anaba Efforts to carry out law reforms in the area of domestic violence and violence against women generally have been fruitless, especially at the national level. It is on record that the two oldest bills pending at the National Assembly are the bill on Violence Against Women and the Freedom of Information bill. […]
The thrills and frills of Christmas (2)
By Awa Kalu A simple definition of ‘offer’ is the one made by Prof. Itse Sagay in his well known book, Nigerian Law of Contract which makes an offer ‘a definite undertaking or promise made by one party with the intention that it shall become binding on the party making it as soon as it […]
The hope of generations
By Owei Lakemfa I WAS absolved by various reports on the collapse of the Socialist bloc from 1989 to 1992. Most of the reports took their theme song from the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was particularly engrossed in the “Velvet Revolution†in the old Czechoslovakia which began to unfold from the November 17, […]
The Niger Delta: Not yet uhuru
By Gab Ejuwa IT is no longer news that the Yar’Adua government can now beat its chest and claim to have chalked up some sort of achievement in an otherwise barren and arid tenure. The government’s squealing propagandists can now go to town, cities, countries and even continents to extol the virtues of the ailing […]
Latest bank reforms
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi Lamido  Sanusi has lost the gusto with which he spoke about his banking reforms. When he threw out the managing directors of five banks last August, he accused them of infractions that threatened the health of the entire banking sector. Chief among these allegations were that they gave bad […]
PDP vows to take over Orji’s seat
By Anayo Okoli Umuahia—Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State says it has sworn to “capture†the state in the 2011 general elections. The party stated this during a unity rally organised by the North Senatorial District of the party, held at Ahaba Imenyi Central School in Isiukwuato Local Government Area. Abia PDP said it […]
MY Q launches new collection
Daughter of the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress, Yeside Mohammed Laguda, last Sunday in Lagos, formerly introduced her new collection into the Nigerian market.
