Uncertainty trails Bayelsa oil spill as community counts losses
For a people still mourning the tragic loss of 14 lives in a 2015 pipeline explosion, the sight of black crude gushing from the 6-inch Azuzuama/Tebidaba flow line was more than just an environmental disaster, it was a painful reminder of promises broken and lives cut short.
Nigerian Judiciary and 15 years of democracy
BY MIKE OZEKHOME (SAN) No doubt, the Nigerian Judiciary has had to contend with powerful variegated democratic forces since 1999, forces that are at once centripetal as they are centrifugal. It has been buffeted from all sides; assailed by inglorious politicians who lost their electoral legal battles in Court; bled internally by some irredeemably corrupt […]
JIBRIN ISAH Vs INEC: A case of judgment without justice? (2)
In another breadth,my Lords at the supreme court willfully ignored the evidence in a manner inconsistent with the records before the court and proceeded to make another finding when it held in paragraph 8 of the lead judgement that: “This suit was filed by appellant on 9/2/12. That is,it took the appellant over two […]
12m Nigerians living with learning disability — Expert
DIRECTOR, Helping Hands Special School, Miss Chinenye Okoye has stated that 12 million Nigerians are living with learning disability adding that out of that number, six million are children
84,097 retirees get N210.7bn through programmed withdrawal
About N210.78.63billion has been paid as lump sums to retirees under the Programmed Withdrawal of Contributory Pension scheme., CPS.
Confab’s mixed message on judiciary reform
The 2014 National Conference’s committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Right, and Legal Reforms alongsides other committees had turned up its report for the conference plenary debates and adoption on May 15th, 2014.
