Babies in the rubble: Inside Lagos’ growing child abandonment crisis
ON a rainy Tuesday morning in Ikeja, sanitation workers made a grim discovery. Tucked inside a carton by a roadside drain was a newborn, still with the umbilical cord attached and wrapped in a thin cloth.
Fashola’s 800-day fun for youths
By Kingsley Adegboye & Olasunkanmi Akoni CALL it their day of glory, you probably will not be wrong. Afterall it is not everyday one gets to share the limelight with the chief executive of your state, the governor himself. As so while the ceremony lasted, the lucky kids were full of smiles. And who wouldn’t […]
Hell on earth on a Sunday…As residents count their losses in fire disaster
By Fredrick Okopie For Christians, Sunday is a holy day of obligation, a day set aside for special worship of God based on Biblical injunction. As a result Sundays always find Christians of different denonminations converging in their respective places of worship to perform this sacred obligation. But beyond worshipping God, Sunday has also come […]
Rage of robbers
By Mike Ebonugwo No one could have expected what happened. In the first place most of the motorists and passengers in commuter buses were preoccupied with thoughts of how to get out of the slow-moving, bumper-to-bumper traffic between Ago Junction in Okota and Pako in Oke-Afa. The situation was worsened by some impatient motorists who […]
Why Buhari, Atiku & Tinubu moved against Yar’Adua, by Ayo Opadokun
*Declares: President has only one option *‘Politicians are a big problem to Nigeria’ At a time like this it should not be a surprise that former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and immediate past Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are back, together, courtesy of opposition politics. And so, […]
My relationship with Obasanjo, Kema Chikwe
Power is transient, it has moved, and I am happy that what I have seen in Imo State today is different from what used to happen, picking up personalities for destruction just because you saw them as political competitors
Why we translate part of 1999 constitution to local dialects- A G Balyesa state
By Abdulwahab Abdulah Anthony George-Ikoli made headlines four years ago when he emerged the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria from Bayelsa state. Since then, George-Ikoli had gone further to become the first SAN to occupy the office of the Attorney-General of the state. It is a great challenge to this silk as he has to […]
SERAP urges Clinton to press Nigeria to explain spending of recovered loot
By Innocent Anaba The Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged US Secretary of State Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton to use her visit to Nigeria scheduled to begin on August 10 2009, to press the Nigerian government to exercise sufficient political will and good faith to fight high level official corruption in the country, […]
The Lagos LCDA palaver : Beyond the emotions
By Emmanuel Majebi It was a very tough decision for me to decide to write this article about the LCDA’s controversy especially when I find myself in a position where I do not for once agree with the Lagos state Government! The present Governor of Lagos State has performed well and is a breath of […]
Emergence of real winner in Ihiala Federal Constituency election
By Kayode Matthew In other civilised climes, it is unheard of that someone who was not a candidate in an election could be declared the winner of that election by the electoral umpire. In Nigeria however, where nothing is impossible, the ‘winner’ will not only exploit the loopholes in the law to enable him remain […]
Senate moves to amend section 64 of the Evidence Act
By Emmanuel Aziken When the Evidence Act was first enacted 64 years ago it neither envisaged the use of computer technology nor the use of mobile telephone text messages in fraud. It is thus not surprising that clear evidence of the use of computers and mobile phones remain inadmissible in Nigerian courts today. Rather, the […]
