A MISTAKEN new dance of reduction, nameless in its taxonomy – as it cannot be named Owigiri, Filete, Egebu, Wabu, Wolowolowo or Agene in Ijaw or any other language – but carrying dance steps quaintly familiar – was recently created by Oweilaemi the uncrowned IYC president II. The echoes of this dance drawn from his celebrated two polices  of displacement and categorical pronouncement have been cleverly extended to the commander of JTF, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman, whose JTF has been branded the producer and supplier of the elixir for the endless illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Because Oweilaemi, upon refined data scientifically analyzed, has discovered the illegal oil bunkering perpetrated by JTF in the Niger Delta, the discovery ingenuity, skill, of Christopher Columbus who discovered the “New World” of the Americas in 1492, and Mungo Park who discovered River Niger, pales in insignificance when juxtaposed with the discovery capacity of the IYC president II.

Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2018 Appropriations Law. The signing which happened on June 20 has generated a lot of controversies owing particularly to the observations which the president made at the signing ceremony, observations which were of great concern to patriotic Nigerians who wish for the country to run her processes as democratically possible as provided by our constitution.

The symbolic revalidation by President Muhammadu Buhari of the 12 June 1993 presidential election, callously annulled by the military dictator General Ibrahim Babangida, caught many by surprise. Some might even be experiencing a nervous breakdown. 

Members of the Fulani elite groups who are, in fact, the real owners of the animals that the herders move around for grazing, should do something to improve the conditions of these poor herders they are exploiting

The first response we expect this statement to elicit from the gasping opposition party in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is that the Edo State government is trying to attack an innocent Edo citizen, for genuinely exposing the suffering of the masses, in order to bring them succor. Far from it.

It has been ten years since the self-styled “strong man of Ibadan politics”, Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Akanji Adedibu, died. He died on June 11, 2008. I do not recall seeing many tributes or advertisements in the newspapers or other media commemorating his life and legacy.

The paradox of the Nigerian education system is that the most competent teachers in terms of professional skills and credentials are employees of public schools

PROFESSOR Imran Oluwole Smith SAN  is a Professor of Law of the prestigious University of Lagos, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (U.K) and also a Fellow of the Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He is currently Professorial Associate, School of African and Oriented Studies of the University of London and a member of the inner Bar, otherwise described with the accolade “Senior Advocate of Nigeria “.

THAT central bank is of crucial importance to national economic health cannot be overemphasized. It is the supreme monetary authority in every country and the heartbeat of the economy. As the heart pumps blood to give life to the body, so does the central bank pump and regulate money supply in the financial system to maintain a healthy economy. Central bank policies can either make or mar the economic life of a people, thus the need for in-depth economic research, formulation of rationally comprehensive policies and strategic sensitivity for sharpness of perception.

Although participation in “bourgeois politics”—as we used to call electoral politics—has never been absent from the Nigerian Left’s general programme, it has also not been made a “categorical imperative”. I am, however, now persuaded that it has become generally accepted in the ranks of contemporary Nigerian Leftists that intervention and participation in the country’s electoral struggle—for office or for power, as an organized political force and in alliance or acting separately—have become both categorical and urgent.