Today’s world is characterized by tyranny, dictatorship and impunity thereby justifying the ceaseless campaigns by Amnesty International (AI) for an end to abuses of human rights across the globe. In the last couple of years, Nigeria has been one of the countries to which AI has directed its searchlight, finding quite often a multiplicity of human rights abuses. For the period 2017 to 2018, Amnesty reported on insurgency attacks, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some cases, led to deaths in custody.

Amid the ongoing strike by university teachers across the country, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) may embark on an industrial action following the Federal Government’s failure to fulfil its 10-year agreement with the union over the welfare of its members.

Debuting his music career at age 7 where he performed at the ECOWAS conference concert in Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, Ayodeji Mayowa Ajayi has grown not just in music, but with the understanding that he can do much more with art,  using it to tell stories that might never be told. 

Before he became the fifth elected Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello saw himself as an anti-establishment radical who was always quick to jump to the defense of those whose rights have been abridged or to harshly criticise public office holders, especially governors perceived as having failed to live up to expectation in their job. Yet this was quite surprising considering the fact that apart from being the son of Colonel Sani Bello (retd) who was once the military governor of Kano State, he had in 2009 served as Niger State Commissioner for Investment, Commerce and Cooperatives.

I totally submit to the judgment of the Appeal Court. My only concern, as a lawyer, is that the issue of technicality ought to have been suspended by the Appeal Court in the interest of justice