By Onome Amawhe Of all the commands in the Nigerian Police Force, Lagos holds the status of being the most strategic with its status as the nation’s economic capital. Deploying a commissioner to head the command is not a decision lightly taken as the performance or lack of almost aggregates to the general performance of […]

“Today, I am pleased to inaugurate 43 new Ministers who will work with me and the Vice President in our service to the people of Nigeria.

DREDGING the Calabar port has flared a lot of controversies because some parties involved argue that the process of awarding the contract was fundamentally flawed. Some of the controversies relate to contravention of the bidding process whereby the bidders did not adhere strictly to due process. In some cases the manner of awarding the contract was not satisfactory to either the Bureau of Public Enterprises or the Nigerian Ports Authority. Also, those who control the levers of power were often accused of hijacking the process of the contract award and come out triumphant. For instance, the management of NPA had accused some of brazenly contravening the Public Procurement Act’s laid down rules. All these factors conspired to produce the ignoble start-and-stop syndrome in the award, reaward and execution of the Calabar port dredging.

THE shocking discovery that the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu was sidelined in the NOUN/Law School stakeholders meeting held on October 29, 2019 at the Federal Ministry of Justice is to say the least, suspicious. Not even a notice was sent to his ministry which is in charge of education in the country for representation. The meeting had reportedly in attendance the chairman, Council of Legal Education, Chief Emeka Ngige, SAN, Director-General, Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma, SAN, and Vice Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Prof Adamu Uba Abdalla who was accompanied by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Justus Sokefun and others while the Minister of Justice/Attorney General of the Federation, Abubarka Mallami, SAN, presided.

By Wale Akinola No evidence of hate speech was observed in Nigerian newspapers’ reports monitored between July and September 2019, according to a survey. The survey comes against the backdrop of the controversial Hate Speech Bill currently in the works at the Senate. The bill, which has outraged many Nigerians, provides for the death penalty […]