Viewpoint

What do Airtel, Fidelity bank and Lekki Gardens have in common?

What do Airtel, Fidelity bank and Lekki Gardens have in common?

By Temiloluwa Johnson A telecoms giant, a bank and a property developer. On paper, nothing. On ARCON’s honours list, quite a lot. A telecoms giant, a bank and a property developer. On paper, nothing. On ARCON’s honours list, quite a lot. One connects millions of phone calls a day. One looks after people’s money. One […]
Visible Articles 5 10 15
Okotie’s elixir for policy somersault

Okotie’s elixir for policy somersault

Policy reserval is a disease common to our governments, military or civilian, since independence in 1960. It has been the bane of development in a way that rubbishes all the positives of perspective planning.

Ogun: The waiting continues for Iwe-Irohin journalists

Ogun: The waiting continues for Iwe-Irohin journalists

Are journalists in Ogun tate not worthy of appointments in the government of their state? Why is it that successive occupants of Igbein Hill Government House since 1999 (that was when I began active journalism in the State) have not been looking their ways for engagement, especially as media and information managers?

Akpabio: The seal of victory (2)

Akpabio: The seal of victory (2)

The majesty of the moment is that the Governor epitomises a fresh faith in the old dream of the creation of Akwa Ibom.

Aikhomu: A man of commonsense(2)

Aikhomu: A man of commonsense(2)

Gus was exhibiting a sense of injured pride. He felt like a man who had accomplished his mission well and acquitted himself diligently and elegantly, and then, just in the last step and moment, was now being forced to experience an embarrassment that was totally avoidable.

Suspension of Justice Salami is not  a violation of  Constitution (2)

Suspension of Justice Salami is not a violation of Constitution (2)

I submit that the power to appoint or recommend for appointment ju dicial officers vested in NJC by Section 158[1] of the Constitution and Paragraph 21[a] and [g] of the Third Schedule to the Constitution includes the power to remove or suspend such judicial officers: See Section 11[1][b] of the Interpretation Act, which provides: When an enactment confers a power to appoint a person either to an office or to exercise any functions, whether for a specified period or not, the power includes