Boycott the boycottables, by Eric Teniola
Let us imagine that the opposition parties will boycott the forthcoming elections scheduled for next year. How will such a boycott affect the country and our democracy? And is boycott the best option? Cameroon and Tanzania experienced election boycotts by the opposition recently, but that has not affected the overall rating of the election results. In 2000, […]
Postponement of elections as a culture
ANNULMENT of elections, violence before, during and after elections, banning of candidates and postponement of elections are gradually becoming part of the Nigeria culture.
A contest between two kindreds
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.
Abuse of the electoral system
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.
Shehu Shagari, part hero
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 Judiciary in distress
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.
The last minimum wage (2)
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).
The last minimum wage (1)
THE last minimum wage bill in Nigeria was signed on September 3, 1981, by Late President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (1925- 2018). It was N125.00 per month, which is the equivalent of N45,000.00 now.
FIIRS- Collector of taxes by force in an era of poverty(2)
ON July 10 this year, Joanna Slater published an article in the Washington Post. In the article, she claimed that “It is a distinction that no country wants: the place with the most people living in extreme poverty.
FIIRS – Collector of taxes by force in an era of poverty(1)
THE Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Dr. Babatunde Fowler (62) is a man who takes his job seriously.
The huge debt burden and how we got there (3)
WHEN General Sani Abacha (1943-1998) took over from Chief Ernest Oladeinde Adegunle Shonekan on November 17, 1993, he pegged the official rate at N21 to US$1. In the black market it was running close to N50 per US$1,that is if you can get it to buy. The official rate of N22 per dollar stayed throughout the tenure of General Sanni Abacha.
