OPINION

  By Walter Duru   The Federal Government of Nigeria recently constituted a committee to facilitate the recovery of N614 billion given to the 35 states of the federation on budget support. Imo, expectedly, is one of the states that benefitted from the gesture, while Chief Rochas Okorocha held sway...

      By Niyi Osundare Omoyele Sowore is not the enemy the Nigerian government needs or should want to fight. The real enemies are out there: hunger and grinding poverty of the masses in the country of a few dubious billionaires, widespread insecurity of life and property, a creeping...

By Ola Awoniyi   The screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate has come and gone but the dust it raised may take some time to settle. The announcement of ministerial nominations is always greeted with public excitement. And the case was not different this time round too, for obvious...

    To say the least, the past two weeks in Nigeria have been nothing short of a beehive of dramatic revelations which set off a cascade of unending discussions transcending the social media space into a seemingly united Calvary of patriotic Nigerian people, who had become too tired of...

  By Grace Ketefe The issue of rape as a prevailing social scourge in Nigeria once again took the front burner of public discourse within past few days on the heels of disclosure by Busola Dakolo, the wife of the talented musician, Mr. Timi Dakolo, that she had been raped...

  By Idris Omolabake The story of the emergence of former Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his successor, Femi Gbajabiamila, will be incomplete without adequate mention of the exploits of Abdulmumuni Jibrin, an influential member of the House of Representatives from Kano State. Jibrin has succeeded in “installing” two different speakers...

  By Collins Okeke On April 5, 2018, Peter Nielson, a Danish National was arrested by the Nigerian Police for allegedly killing his Nigerian wife, Zainab and their three-year-old daughter, Petra at their home in the Ikoyi area of Lagos state. His arrest was communicated to the Danish Embassy in...

  Alternative Dispute Resolution in Nigeria is not a new field. Without doubt, disputes are invariable and recurring decimal in human and commercial interactions. Thus, the need for effective dispute resolution mechanisms to be adequately put in place arises. Traditionally, Litigation and Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms have been identified as...

  By Abubakar Mahmoud Ahmed Over the past two weeks, I’ve attended every day of the court case brought by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other-Related Offences Commission  (ICPC) against Pinnacle Communications Limited and the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu. From the beginning, I had very...

    By Dr Ademola Adegoke   The pen is ordinarily a sword of justice;a tool for pounding oppressors and elevating heroes of democracy and rule of law. Unfortunately, in the hands of sworn peddlers of democratic discord and anti-people propagandists, it has now become a weapon to sustain election...