The SAN’s Pulpit: The new silks and crisis nipped in the bud
The crisis which nearly erupted in the bowels of the Supreme Court on Monday April 12, in the course of the inauguration of ‘brand new silks’ had been brewing for a while. The recipe had been cast into the cauldron several weeks ago even though the sequence of events is now difficult to reconstruct.
PDP asks state chapters to register Atiku, associates
THE Coast appears clearer yesterday for the return of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, following the order by the leadership of the party that he should be registered along with his associates across the country.
Alleged N104m fraud: Ogbulafor for trial
The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, has assigned the case of alleged N104 million corruption charges against the National Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, to Justice I.U. Bello of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, for trial even as a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, BOT, Senator Onyeabo Obi, confirmed moves by some forces within the party to remove Ogbulafor.
N1.5bn libel suit: Chime testifies in court
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, yesterday appeared before a Lagos High Court in continuation of trial in the N1.5 billion libel case he instituted against a politician, Chief Okechukwu Ezea and a national newspaper.
Fears over Lake Nyos collapse on Nigeria
The Senate has confirmed the nominations of Professor Christian Chukwu and Mr. Obadiah Ando as ministers.
Ozekhome makes case for physically-challenged persons
By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—Constitutional lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, says “it is most lamentable that successive governments in Nigeria failed to properly plan for Nigerian youths, especially the less privileged and physically challenged persons.†Ozekhome, who spoke in Owerri, during the inauguration of the Youth Enhancement Organisation’s Board of Trustees, BOT, said “our society is […]
