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 […]
Sultan’s amnesty therapy: Playing hand of Esau,voice of Jacob (2)
IN other words, Nigerians will like to know on what basis the amnesty would be granted? Will it be on the basis of the Federal Government acceptance of the demand of the Boko Haram for the establishment of an Islamic State bound by sharia laws in the same manner the demands of the Niger Delta militants were accepted; or will it be on the basis of an outright denunciation of the global jihad project which is sanctioned by the Holy Quran and enlivened by the February 23, 1998 Fatwah of Osama bin Ladin, which called for an unstoppable jihad against Jews and crusaders?
Sultan’s amnesty therapy: Playing hand of Esau, voice of Jacob
AFTER routing the Fulani, al-Kanemi returned Mai Dunoma to his domain. The siege continued until after the death of Uthman Dan Fodio in 1817.
Boko Haram: A people’s alternative to peace (2)
AFTER routing the Fulani, al-Kanemi returned Mai Dunoma to his domain. The siege continued until after the death of Uthman Dan Fodio in 1817.
Boko Haram: A people’s alternative to peace
RECENTLY, tear-soaked Mrs. Deborah Shetima from Borno State gave a gory account of how her husband was killed, her two children seized and her only remaining child shot dead barely one year after the anniversary of the murder of the leader of Boko Haram, Yusuf Mohammed.
The Chavez in Aregbesola
THE poor kid from the plains, Hugo Chavez transited a week ago. In response, a large swathe of humanity stood still.
