From Vision to Reality: Kwara garment factory creates 2,000 jobs, attracts private investment
The Kwara Garment Factory, one of the flagship industrial projects of the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration, has created employment for more than 2,000
Why Appeal Court freed Al-Mustapha & Co (2)
HE knows PW2, Barnabas Jabila a.k.a. Sergeant Rogers. PW2 was serving in Jaji infanty centre and school, worked with the former head of state, Brigadier General Abdulsalam Abubakar closely, and this informed his nomination, that brought him to be a member of strike force into the Presidency.
Why Appeal Court freed Al-Mustapha & Co
Last Friday, the Court of Appeal, Lagos quashed the death sentence which Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court handed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan over the death of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. The appellate court said that the court below convicted the duo at all cost despite the prosecution’s failure to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Below is the judgment as delivered by the appellate court.
Nigeria’s Kill-And-Go Mentality: Now, who killed Kudirat Abiola?
KILL-AND-GO! That was the catch-phrase when the mobile police unit was first introduced in Nigeria about four decades ago. Because of the fiesty mien of the officers and men of that unit, they earned for themselves a reputation of no-nonsense.
Worse still, Nigerians were conditioned to believe that whenever the unit was deployed to quell riots, their rules of engagement differed from the civil, gentle and persuasive approach of the regular police. Indeed, people were left to go with the impression that whatever the officers and men of the unit did was not to be questioned. There was also the belief – for effect at that time – that if an officer of the mobile unit killed in the course of his duty, he would not be held accountable. And so they were named KILL-AND-GO.
House of Assembly crisis: The fantastic five of Rivers
HOW many maces surfaced in the Rivers State House of Assembly on Tuesday? Two or three as being alleged in some quarters? Will the judgement of a tiny minority of five overrule over that of 26? These and many more are some of the questions that have continued to agitate the minds of keen observers of political developments in the Assembly after the drama on Tuesday.
Abiola, June12 And The Paschal Question
On July 7, 1998, they brought Chief Moshood Abiola home in a body bag. That was not what we expected, but that was what we got. The they was the military junta led by General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Abubakar had become head of the junta following the sudden death of his boss, General Sani Abacha, on June 7, 1998.
