By  Eric Teniola OF all the tributes poured on Justice  Mamman Nasir, the late Galadima of Katsina, who died on April 13 this year at 89, his work in solving boundary problems was overlooked. Yet his contribution in solving boundary disputes was the most outstanding duty that he performed to this country. On August 7, […]

What the people of Kwara State want is not a mere change of dynasty but a positive change for the better

Re-elected Presidents are very difficult to predict in their second term

The election burden has become too much for our economy; we can’t continue this way

THE recommendations of the Ahmed Joda’s committee was that the People’s Bank should be restructured and rationalised in accordance with its revised mandate, to strengthen its professional managerial capability for efficient delivery of services and better investment decisions.

With some restructuring and staff rationalization, the Peoples Bank can be well positioned to handle micro-credit delivery

THE Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, GCON, declared in Ilorin recently that the Federal Government will float People’s Money Bank in the country this year.

In all these Constitutions there was no provision for the National Judicial Council, so how come the Council was established in the 1999 Constitution?

IN the wake of the case involving the suspended Chief Justice of the federation, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, (68) GCON, it seems we are much concerned about the Constitutional protection for the judicial officers in the country.

ANNULMENT of elections, violence before, during and after elections, banning of candidates and postponement of elections are gradually becoming part of the Nigeria culture.

IN  the next few days, we shall make a choice between President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON on who should be our President on May 29.

SENATOR Mahmud Waziri (1936-2012) died on September 18, 2012 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was elected from Adamawa on the platform of GNPP in 1979 and served till 1983. He was a member of three Senate committees—transport and aviation, banking and currency and finance and appropriation.

ALMOST 35years after he was overthrown from power, former President Shehu Usman Aliyu  Shagari answered his final call last month. He was 93. He was the most prominent link between the First and Second republics.

THE two day meeting of the National Judicial Council will begin on Tuesday 15th January. It is a scheduled meeting which will be presided over by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter S. Nkanu Onnoghen, who happens to be Chairman of the Council.

ON the conviction of an employer under this section for failing to pay to a worker wages not less than the national minimum wage, the court may make an order that the employer convicted shall pay, in addition to any fine, such sum as appears to the court to be due to the worker on account of wages, the wages being calculated on the basis of the national  minimum wage : provided that the power to order payment on account of wages under this subsection shall not be in derogation of the right of the worker to recover wages due to him by any other proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, 4.-(1).