THE judgment of the International Court of Justice, which purported to award the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun, is to all intents and purposes outrageous, blatantly unjust and patently unsupportable.

AGAINST the backdrop of numerous dangers street trading pose to lives as well as the unhygienic attitude of most Lagos residents, the State Government outlawed all forms of street trading. Those who run foul of the law, are liable to pay an unspecified amount of money as fines or go to jail as the case may be.

THE rainy season is a period most travellers on the East- West road in the Niger Delta region wish should never be. This is due to the nightmare and bitter experience they go through on the road during the rainy season . For many years now, the road has been in a very deplorable state and the situation becomes worse for travellers whenever the rains set in.

NIGERIANS have called on the Federal Government to assemble experts with legal, diplomatic and historial expertise to study the fresh facts that have emerged showing that International Court of Justice (ICJ) was misled into ceding the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun when vital informations that clearly placed Bakassi as a territory within the geographical, political and administrative jurisdiction and control of Nigeria, were concealed to the jurists of the World Court.

In this second part of our investigation into the power tussle between Professor Attahiru Jega, National Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and his national commissioners, we reveal the incongruity in the responsibilities of the Chief of Staff to the INEC Chairman, Dr. Mahmud Magaji, and the authority of national commissioners. This report will also show that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its proposed investment and contract-seeking limited liability company may be attempting to exploit the loophole being created by the power tussle at INEC for gains in the 2015 elections.

Diplomacy can be defined as the process by which a nation state relates or conducts its activities with other nation-states in the international arena, to achieve the set objectives of its foreign policy.

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.