President Muhammadu Buhari wants to intervene in The Gambia to prevent a breakdown of law and order which will lead to a humanitarian crisis.

Nigerians should be aware that while we endorse president Buhari’s Security and Corruption challenges, it is the National Assembly that has the challenge to usher in very urgently a restructured system of governance for more viable economic challenges

Nobody has faulted that judgment on points of law. Nobody has even discussed it!

It is most disheartening when government spends public funds on frivolities amidst one of the toughest economic downturns Nigeria has ever witnessed. The proposed verification of Nigerian pensioners in the Diaspora by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) falls into this category.

AN Igbo proverb says that if a man knows a thing that will bring confusion and trouble let him refrain from doing it.

The law profession is one where seniority is treated with the highest regard in appointments and practice. It flows from the National Judicial Council, NJC, the highest policy making organ for the law profession.

TO characterise a scale of mass murder that defied the English lexicon, Raphael Lemkin cobbled together a new word “genocide”. He pieced the word together from the Greek word, geno, meaning tribe, nation or people and the Latin word, cide (from the conjugation of caedo) meaning to kill. With his new word, he highlighted the methodical and systematic slaughter of entire peoples and nations by the Nazi in Axis occupied Europe.

THE unusual thing about the U.S. is that everything is unusual. If there was still a doubt, the election of Donald J. Trump, who takes office on Friday as the 45th president of the United States of America, settles the matter.

NIGERIA and Poland established diplomatic relations in the 1960s. Since then both countries have enjoyed good political relations. It is important to highlight that bilateral relations between Nigeria and Poland have been marked by mutual cooperation and support for each other in the international force.

THAT Nigeria is still afloat is a miracle pure and simple. This is against the back-drop of jugular bleeding inflicted by Nigeria’s elite financial rapists. This small group has mercilessly battered and plundered Nigeria at all fronts and from every angle waiting for Nigeria to die. A lot of them are evil geniuses in reverse – Thievery.

As it is now, The Gambia is under emergency rule as declared by its president of 22 years, Yahya Jammeh.