Famadewa, Ribadu and the 90-day security plan: Unpacking Onanuga’s release
When the Presidential Spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that President Bola Tinubu had constituted an eleven‑man committee to develop a National Threat Assessment and a Strategic Defence Operations Plan within ninety days, with about four months to the general elections, several things struck me even before I reached the substance of the directive.
FOI Act: Where His Lordship got it wrong
IN a recent ruling, his lordship, Justice Gabriel O. Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja suggested that the Freedom of Information Act, 2011 was somehow defective because it provides in Section 1(2) that an applicant seeking information from a public institution should not be required to demonstrate his or her interest in that information and called on the National Assembly to amend the Law to restrict its application.
Air Cargo Revolution: How Nigerian farmers would profit…
BASSEY Ekpe (not real name, 33, loves apples. A resident of Ikeja, a Lagos suburb, Ekpe has eagerly eaten apples for well over 10 years. The catch is he does not know where these apples come from or how they get to him.
Close to 50 and above in dominion(2)
HIS Highness Alhaji Umaru Sanda Ndayanko(1937-2002) the late Etsu Nupe was Permanent Secretary in Kaduna in 1964.
To my godfather at 80
FROM whichever perspective it is viewed, the attainment of the 80th milestone in a man’s life-span is an event of utmost significance.
The corruption in Anti-Corruption Watch
THE world over, non-governmental organisations, NGOs, are agencies or social movements that open up the liberal political space, engender equalisation of opportunities, improve the circumstances of disadvantaged peoples and institutions and hold governments to account.
2015: This game of hide and seek
WILLIAM HAZLIT in his book says ” the least pain in our finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions”.
NAFDAC, Paul Orhii and the tragedy of social media
THE advent of social media has no doubt provided additional platform for people to share information and knowledge about things happening in their immediate communities and around the world.
Armchair critics and Abia’s development
WITH the wind of the 2015 general elections already blowing across the country, politicians are increasingly scheming for relevance. Some of them will stop at nothing in bringing whoever they see as a stumbling block down. Where they feel they cannot do it themselves, they use their hatchet men, including emergency journalists without a known or registered medium.
Right of reply… Anambra 2014: One office, multiple contenders
‘Close watchers of events in Anambra contend that the lack of geo-balance and respect for the sensibilities of the electorate in Anambra State by the key players in the newly formed All Progressive Congress (APC) is the greatest headache its most visible aspirant Dr Chris Ngige would have ‘
Stop this Igbo bashing in Lagos
WHEN Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was sworn in as the Governor of Lagos State, to take over from his mentor, I was one of those who vouched for him, urging my friends in our small but very closed forum of lawyers who are pastors to monitor and watch the actions of Lawyers in Power.
