Boat mishaps: When will they end?
Nigeria must begin to confront boat mishaps as a national public-safety crisis. The latest tragedy at Gorau village in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, where 65 people reportedly died, is too grim a reminder of the price Nigerians pay for regulatory failure and government neglect. The tragedy is particularly disturbing because it was […]
Mending The Constitution, Nwabueze’s Unheeded Calls
PROFESSOR Ben Nwabueze at his 80th birthday re-stated his idea of the Nigeria he wanted since his return to the country in 1962. He had thought Nigeria after independence would be the great nation that many foretold.
Poverty Of The North, Poverty For All
SENATOR Ahmed Makarfi was governor of Kaduna State for eight years. Thereafter, he was in the Senate for four years, but the people denied him a space when he sought re-election, though his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, returned him unopposed in the primaries.
Jeopardised Judiciary
LAST February when the tiff between Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, became public, Salami had predicted, “chained reactions.” In a February 4 letter, he warned Katsina-Alu not to create a “dangerous precedent which may give rise to chained reactions.”
Tenure Tampering – It Wasn’t Me
THE best ploys in defence are to stick to your story and more importantly blame others. President Goodluck Jonathan is applying both in his comments on the proposal to hand the president and governors a six-year tenure. There is a sweetener that will sell the proposal – the legislature will also get a modified tenure.
Expensive Siren – N12 Million Only!
SIRENS can be expensive as Mrs. Endurance Odubu, wife of the Deputy Governor of Edo State has discovered. A Federal High Court in Benin City ordered her to pay N12 million as damages to Captain Olorunduyilemi Stephen, an officer with the 4th Brigade of the Nigerian Army.
