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 […]
Orji’s model state of Law and Order
YOU cannot legislate a society of law and order into existence. Neither can you cause it by fiat. You build. Law and order are the conditions for all other socio-economic activities of man,” wrote Alozie Ogugbuaja, in his controversial memo on “The People’s Police”.
Governor Obi’s twilight days at Awka
Whatever has a beginning surely has an end. While the end could be accentuated by the coloration of the beginning, the exactness of the summation varies according to the level of compliance of the interacting agents in a consistently changing time.
God has not forsaken you
God today has a word for you that will encourage you and strengthen you to hold on to Him because He is not through with blessing you just yet.
The Amnesty Conundrum: A northern problem
Rev. Chris Okotie’s analysis of the amnesty request by Northern leaders in an Article titled, ‘’The Boko Haram Amnesty Conundrum” published in the Sunday Vanguard of April 20, 2013 laid bare the mischief behind the comparison of the amnesty granted the Niger Delta militants and the strident call for same for the Islamists by leaders of the beleaguered region.
Between the Delta State govt and Shell
THAT Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, is a major stakeholder, player and partaker in the petroleum industry remains a cardinal fact. Shell is synonymous with the petroleum industry in Nigeria. It is the initium-et-finis and the locus classicus of the petroleum industry and it constitutes the structural matrix on which the petroleum sector and subsectors lie.
