The International Court of Justice’s judgment of October 2002, may have been given, and the Green Tree Agreement arising from this judgment, may have been made with the best of intention; but then some of the greatest atrocities or mistakes in the world were committed, some in honest error, with the best of intentions.

JUDGE Al Khasaweh fur ther challenged the ICJ where he opined that “no support can be found to the Court conclusion by reference to the Western Sahara or the Island of Palmas decisions.”

Mallam Abdullahi U. Maiyaki, a senior research fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos in this second edition of the Vanguard Media series on rethinking the judgment of ICJ and options before the Federal Government where the executive seems to be alone in conceding Bakassi provides fresh insights on options before President Goodluck Jonathan

In less than one month, Nigeria will forgo Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon unless Nigeria raises an appeal against the verdict of the Hague based International Court of Justice which awarded the sovereignty of Bakassi peninsula to the Central African country using the 1913 Anglo-German treaty as the basis of its decision.

Jumping from one inconclusive economic and political issue to another appears to be a factor that is fast defining the Presidency of Nigeria’s Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

Hope was rekindled for the Power Sector when President Goodluck Jonathan appointed an electricity expert, Professor Barth Nnaji as the Minister of Power in 2011. Barely, 13 months after, the Minister resigned his appointment in an extreme controversial circumstance.

A great and historic advance in the running of government was made recently by President Goodluck Jonathan which jostled the nation when all the ministers in his cabinet signed the Performance Contract Agreement (PCA) during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja.

…Students risk losing another year
THIS is certainly not the best of times for students of the Rivers state University of Science and Technology, RSUST as lecturers in the school have been on strike for close to one month to force the Visitor of the University and Governor of the State, Chibuike Amaechi to reverse the appointment of Professor Barineme Fakae as Acting Vice Chancellor.

…As agitation for review of ICJ verdict heightens ahead of deadline
When the United Nations endorsed a referendum in Sudan to end the intractable civil war in the North African country, it was obvious that “the wild oats sown in your younger days had made an awful harvest in our autumn of life.”

SINCE the thirty-six state governors came together and formed a group known as the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, and inaugurated it in April 1999, they have been very strong and spoke vehemently with one voice on national issues.