That armed soldiers were deployed on the streets of Lagos to crush the unprecedented protest over fuel subsidy removal is no longer news. What is new is that the Soldiers have been withdrawn following demands for such by Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN and pressure from well-meaning Nigerians.

Enugu State was one of the states created in Nigeria in August 1991, by the former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida. It was carved out of the old Anambra state arising from the gross agitations and cries of marginalisation by the Wawa people in the hands of their brothers, the ‘’Ijekoebe” people who, today, make up the present Anambra state.

Prince Adetunji Orisalade, a lawyer of over 25 years is the Deputy Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly. Orisalade, a former Chairman, Lagos State Valuation Court in Badagry division between 1995-2000 in this interview spoke on the state of the nation, arguing that President Goodluck Jonathan did not carry Nigerians along before the increase in the pump price of fuel.

It is not in doubt that the judiciary has in recent times played defining roles that not only greased the wheels of our democratic voyage, it has also conferred mandate on candidates involved in one form of electoral dispute or the other.

By Innocent Anaba Thirty-five local and international human rights organisations have called on the Nigerian authorities to immediately release labour union leader, Mr Osmond Ugwu and union member, Mr Raphael Elobuike and drop all charges, given the glaring lack of evidence in the prosecution’s case against them. The groups argued that rather than detain the […]