The Federal Government’s response to the 2015/2016 report of the Amnesty International (AI) was not only hasty but also in many respects ill-advised. Issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government in its attempt to justify its disobedience to court orders to release some individuals on bail branded the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (The Shiites) and the pro-Biafra groups as “terrorist” or “unlawful”.

It is not only strange, but totally unacceptable that barely two months after the Federal Government announced the approval of a policy to offer generous financial rewards for whistleblowers who assist in recovery of stolen public funds, the first person to officially take up the challenge is relieved of his job. At least the news has not been denied by the Ministry involved.

With the exception of the state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari and its consequences for the nation, the most topical economic issue in Nigeria is the fall in value of the Naira to the major foreign currencies (particularly the Dollar).

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”

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 […]