WE are in full support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for efforts to be channelled towards setting a reasonable time limit for criminal cases. He handed this charge to the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in a keynote address read on his behalf through a virtual interaction by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. While stressing that the […]

AN early confirmation of the appointments of the pioneer executive of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities, NCPD, by the Senate is now awaited to enable the new agency start work. On August 24, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari named Hussaini Kangiwa, Chairman and Abba Ibrahim, Secretary of the new Commission. Six people living with […]

  THE much-anticipated reopening of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, AIIAE, took place on schedule on Sunday, August 30, 2020. But it ran into a controversy when it was discovered that much work is still required to be done before the remodelling project is completed. The videos of construction scaffolds still adorning the main […]

WE congratulate Nigeria’s Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina for his re-election as President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, by the Bank’s Board of Directors with the full support of other stakeholders on August 24, 2020. It is a deserved victory because in politics, it is said that one good term deserves another. Adesina’s successful implementation of […]

ONE of Nigeria’s obvious national hobbies is the routine tinkering with the constitution. Whether under military or civilian regimes, the impulse to convene conferences towards the promulgation of new constitutions or the routine amendments of existing ones is always with us, but we still end up with the same unsatisfactory constitutional document. The Ninth Senate […]