Dangers of state governments bankrolling mass weddings
Kano’s recent announcement that it spent N1.5bn to bankroll mass weddings should prompt national alarm rather than applause. Kano State remains rampant in the worrying roster of northern states – including Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Borno – that have for years organised and financed large-scale nuptial ceremonies. Authorities offer three common rationales: to reduce […]
Now that free education is justiciable
In a landmark ruling, an Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice John Tsoho, last week affirmed that the right of every Nigerian child to free basic education (primary and junior secondary) is now justiciable, thus breaking the decades-old impediment to the compulsory enforcement of Section 18(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigerian (1999), which vitiates the right with the proviso: “when practicable”
Task before CJN Onnoghen
It was an epoch making event on Wednesday, March 1,2017, at the Red Chambers of the National Assembly when the Senate unanimously confirmed His Lordship, Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen, as the 15th substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. The Upper Legislative House’s endorsement followed an unprecedented over three months of suspense during which Onnoghen’s ascension to […]
Gov Obiano and the highest law
It was Ify Unachukwu of the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) who put the question to me. We were at Igbariam in the Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State. Governor Willie Obiano had just commissioned the first phase of the Lynden Integrated Farms, a sprawling, N15 billion poultry farm set on 75 hectares of land, the largest such agricultural facility in the South East geo-political zone.
Influx of dangerous arms, fake tyres
Recent reports of the successful passage of contraband or substandard goods through the Customs into the country call for concern. Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on January 27, 2017, confiscated 661 pieces of pump action rifles illegally imported into the country from China. The weapons were packed in 49 boxes and concealed with […]
Gale of deportations of Nigerians
The month of February 2017 was a most unusual one for the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other statutory bodies charged with the responsibility of handling the intake and processing of Nigerians deported from countries in various parts of the world.
