Atiku’s Border Promise: Between political expediency and Nigeria’s national interest
By Okey IBEKE Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s promise to reopen Nigeria’s land borders if elected president in 2027 may appeal to traders and border communities who depend on cross-border commerce. But the promise raises a more important question: what exactly does he intend to reopen? The Federal Government has challenged the premise of the […]
Can an elected president spend more than eight years? (2)
THE questions arising from the above provision are as follows: Why should the Vice President been sworn-in as President? Why is the Constitution silent on the eligibility of such Vice President who assumes the office of President under Section 136 (1) of the Constitution to be elected subsequently as President in two tenures?
Of Hosannas and nail him to the cross chanters
It is that season of the year again, the season of the year that Christian faithful around the world reminisce on the final days of the Lord Jesus Christ on earth. Yearly, around this period, the world is regaled with stories of love, Christ’s love and the betrayal of men.
They write about death
DEATH has come under many writers scrutiny because it seems to be on the rampage among actors. Recently, it invaded the tribe of writers with the death of Prof. Chinua Achebe, easily one of the finest writers the world has known. Not an ornate or florid writer, but his prose is localised that it quickly carved a niche for itself.
Can an elected president spend more than eight years
JUSTICE Mudashiru Oniyangi of a Federal High Court in Nigeria, on March 1, 2013, in a well publicised judgement, held that the incumbent President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan can contest for the office of President in the 2015 presidential election.
The Monday Kano bombing: What will Ndi Igbo do?
ASKING for Amnesty for mass murderers because that was done to Niger Deltans is so unreasonable that those who ask for this are part of why Nigeria is the way it is! If the food , grains and cattle which we get from the north has become a big issue, let them keep their things, while we keep the oil! This is so, because the killing of Igbo people in the north MUST STOP NOW.
