Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police has just launched a code of conduct and professional standards for the country’s police force. The code aims to “provide all members of the Nigeria Police Force with a set of guiding principles and standards of behaviour while on or off duty.”

Nigeria’s sincere commitment to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other tropical diseases that pose threat to right to health is deficient and totally intolerable.

Odinkalu continues this week with this article on Economy, Politics and Human Rights: Whither Nigeria?

Chief Morah Ekwunoh, a lawyer in this interview, spoke on pro-bono services, nothing that lawyers need to engage in free legal services to help indigents litigants.

The ICC prosecutor opened preliminary examination into the situations to determine if Nigeria’s international justice obligations have been breached. The April 2011 post election violence, incessant cases of kidnapping, assassination, terrorist bombings and attacks on police and military formations, armed attacks on hapless civilians, etc demonstrate the urgency of addressing the situation as a matter of priority.

The prosecution of Mr Iorwase Hembe and Azubogu Ifeanyi, both members of House of Representatives for stealing $4,095 estacodes given to them by Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC to travel overseas had attracted comments both in Nigeria and overseas.

It is however, not just enough to wish that Nigeria should not “wither”. It is more important to work to ensure that it does not. In this context, there have been and there remain legitimate concerns about the direction and future of Nigeria and our theme ought to read “Whither Nigeria?” That is the theme I set out to address in the remarks that follow.