Election rigging: Universities should reply Obi, by Tonnie Iredia
A scathing recent remark by the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress NDC, Mr. Peter Obi that Nigerian professors now help illiterates to rig elections in the country must have disconcerted many citizens. It is certainly a remark which keeps Nigeria quite low in the comity of nations more so as it shows the irony […]
The texture of justice
The Right Honourable Lord Denning devotes a substantial portion of his book What Next In The Law, to discuss how the English justice system faired in the hands of some of the great judicial reformers of British antiquity.
Tomorrow belongs to the educated
Josef Omorotionmwan NIGERIA has hardly got its priorities right. A situation where the rent seeker is capable of paying the Professor’s salary and still left with a comfortable balance; and where the semi-literates parade chains of chieftaincy titles and live in ostentation while the Professor’s take-home pay can hardly take him to the next bus […]
Can Nigeria continue to avoid probing Jonathan?
Did the often quoted, often returned yet never accounted for “Abacha loot” only become public knowledge because the former military head of state, General Sani Abacha, is dead?
The NJC and NBA in the fight against corruption
WHEN recently the Department of State Security, DSS, arrested seven very senior judges, including Justice John Okoro, and Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court, many Nigerians condemned the raid for the manner it was executed and not because they considered the judges above the law.
Who bewitched you oh Southern Governors?
NOTHING typifies the fault lines in Nigeria today than the boldness with which the governors of the north pursue sectional and sheepishness with which southern governors go about with their tails tucked between their wobbly legs.
