Giving ex-prisoners another chance
The appeal by rehabilitated female ex-inmates for society to reject stigma is a timely reminder that punishment should not become a life sentence after release. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) itself now has a statutory mandate to reform, rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders, while its programmes include education, vocational training and income generation through farms and […]
Agenda for Buhari’s second term
AS President Muhammadu Buhari and the various elected or re-elected governors of 29 states begin their tenures of office, we wish to put on their tables the most pressing issues they should give utmost priority to pull Nigeria back from increasing cases of insecurity, economic doldrums and other social problems plaguing the country.
Need to appoint NASS Service Commission
FIVE months after the National Assembly dispatched the nominations for the National Assembly Service Commission, NASC, to President Muhammadu Buhari the President is yet to formally make the nominations as required by the provisions of the National Assembly Service Commission Act.
20 years on, dark clouds over our democracy
TODAY marks exactly 20 years of our return to democratic rule. On May 29, 1999, the military regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar handed over power to an elected President, Olusegun Obasanjo, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Why Justice Bulkachuwa’s self-recusal matters
The Court of Appeal being the court of first instance for presidential election petitions under our Constitution, Justice Bulkachuwa had constituted the five-man panel of judges with herself as the chairperson.
NASS’s aborted attempt to gag media
The scars left on our collective psyche by our long tenure under authoritarian rules – British colonialism and military rule – continue to haunt people in government even after 20 unbroken years since the return of democracy in 1999.
