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The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill

The Nigerian Bar Association, its August guests, and the vacuum we must fill

Reflections on the 66th NBA Conference in Port Harcourt By Douglas Baye-Osagie The 66th Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will be remembered for many things. Not just the swearing in of the first elected female President of the Bar, Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, but also the quality of some […]
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Point about homeland security

Point about homeland security

I am impressed by the recommendation of the sub-committee of the National Delegates Conference on Securities for the creation of Ministry or Department of Homeland Securities.

Adamawa: Modibbo coming to the Rescue

Adamawa: Modibbo coming to the Rescue

Since its inception in the 90’s, precisely on August 27th, 1991 when then military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida took a bold step of carving out the present Adamawa State out of Old Gongola, splitting it into Taraba and Adamawa States; Adamawa has not been lucky with efficient political leadership.

Imposition of candidates as threat to democracy

Imposition of candidates as threat to democracy

Internal party democracy is a key ingredient of any democratic system of government. This is because democracy ought to begin from the parties and how they choose their candidates for the election proper. If the candidates are chosen otherwise than in line with tenets of democracy, then the political space would be tainted and no true democracy can be said to be in existence.

Wole Soyinka, may he never live long

Wole Soyinka, may he never live long

IT was a night of radiant quality stars, in December 2010, at the State House, Banquet Hall of the Ghanaian Government, Accra,Ghana, where Professor Wole Soyinka was awarded the Millennium Excellence Award and Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize, alongside AshaHagi the Somalian activist and woman of courage.

Saboteurs and Nigeria

Saboteurs and Nigeria

SABOTAGE is defined as a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity or corporation through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. It is often carried out by enemy combatants, enemy groups, extremist groups, rebel organisations, subversives, underground extremists, etc. A saboteur is also described as a person who destroys or damages something deliberately, a person who performs sabotage.