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 […]

BUSOLA Dakolo, a mother of three who grew up a gifted child was the unlikely heroine in this script. She first laid bare her claims in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, lawyer and co-founder of the digital platform, YNaija.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo AS a cub reporter at  The Punch, 41 years ago, Toye Akiyode was one of the senior reporters we looked up to, then we had mentors without tags. He spent minimal time in the newsroom from his beat at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, a facility that shared a fence with The Punch. […]

By enhancing production and streamlining resource management, African countries can finally have the capital to invest in industrialization and in the diversification of their economies If you go to Amazon.com to purchase NJ Ayuk’s most recent book “Billions at Play: The Future of African Oil and Doing Deals”, which you absolutely should do, you will […]