My Lord, Honourable Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court, Lokoja, was beaten to second place by his colleague in Abuja, Honourable Justice Peter Lifu, in the race for the judge that constitutes the gravest danger to democracy. Justice Lifu was so much in a hurry to claim the title that when the Court of Appeal […]

The Kogi State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Hon. Monday Aridaojo Anyebe, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic killing of Miss Mariam Usman, a teacher at Brains Mind School, Ugbamaka Igah in Olamaboro Local Government Area. In a condolence message, Hon. Anyebe described the incident as heartbreaking and condemned the killing of the […]

I was an avid reader of the THISDAY Backpage columnists in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, from Dr Amanze Obi on Mondays to Waziri Adio on Sundays. Somewhere in the middle of the pack was always Simon Kolawole, who would end his columns with “And Four Other Things…”, where he would dispense with four other […]

The National Association of University Students, NAUS, has declared Tiamiyu Ibrahim of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, as its president. The decision, reached by a majority of the association’s national stakeholders at a meeting held over the weekend in Abuja, followed what they described as Ibrahim’s sacrifice in stepping down during the previous electoral […]

Commenting on the Development, the co-founder of the Centre, Dr. Uche Igwe described the passing of his mother as both a moment of grief and that of celebration.