Human Rights That Are Truly Absolute And Untouchable In Nigeria.

Human Rights That Are Truly Absolute And Untouchable In Nigeria. Daily Law Tips (Tip 808) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Introduction: There several national, regional and international instruments on human rights in Nigeria. However, from Nigerian perspective, the greatest of all laws in the world is the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And…

June 17, 20210Comments

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Opinion

PROF AUWALU YADUDU’S SCARE MONGERING: WHY THE NASS MUST IGNORE HIM

I have just read, to my utmost chagrin and dismay, a release authored by Prof. Auwalu Yadudu and currently trending in the social media. Yadudu titled his piece (which apparently represents his memorandum to the NASS Committee on the Review of the Constitution), “AVOID TAKING THE SLIPPERY SLOPE PATH TO CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW”. Although, I have…

June 17, 20210Comments

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Opinion

Constitution Amendment: Reasons Behind Judiciary Reform Proposals

By Ahuraka Yusuf Isah On June 3, 2021, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad submitted some proposals to the National Assembly, ostensibly to alter some provisions of the Constitution concerning the Judiciary Arm of Government. The CJN made this submission in the paper he presented as recommendations of the Judiciary…

June 15, 20211Comment

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TIPS

Why Nigerian Government Cannot Prosecute Twitter Users

Daily Law Tips (Tip 809) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Introduction: On 5 June 2021, Twitter was banned in Nigeria for deleting the public messages of the President of Nigeria. According to Twitter Inc., the messages where offensive, while according to Nigeria, the ban was “for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate…

June 15, 20210Comments

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Opinion

Interviewing President Buhari

By Reuben Abati I have been privileged to interview quite a number of world leaders in the course of my journalism career. These include President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Commonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan etc..not to talk of holding the microphone across the…

June 15, 20210Comments

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Opinion

IGBOS ARE JUST A DOT IN A CYCLE: YES, PRESIDENT BUHARI IS RIGHT

By Senator Samuel Anyanwu “The Igbo and their territory is just a dot in a circle of the map of Nigeria, which even if they secede could exit to nowhere since the elders and youths of the South-South had assured me of not being part of the secessionist agenda.” The above captures President Muhammadu Buhari’s…

June 15, 20210Comments

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Opinion

Twitter, cow routes and an outworn presidency, By Olagunju Lasisi

OUR president “seems to act speedily only when there is a political enemy to be punished.” That is the conclusion of about 40 diaspora Nigerian intellectuals in a statement they issued on the state of our nation on Friday. Our president is known for their easy life – and he enjoys ‘eating’ it. But, something strange is now…

June 14, 20210Comments

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Faith

Tell someone about Jesus today

‘Look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.’ John 4:35 NIV Jesus said, ‘Don’t you have a saying, “It’s still four months until harvest”?…open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.’ Someone close to you today may be in desperate need of God’s love. Wouldn’t it be worth risking…

June 14, 20210Comments

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Opinion

Buhari: Sad And Saddening Interviews

By Tony Eluemunor Ordinarily, any Nigerian should celebrate the very fact that President Mohammadu Buhari granted two nationally televised interviews in two days. This was a man who had been dubbed the taciturn one simply because he would clam up even when the cries of a need to address the nation was howling like the…

June 14, 20210Comments

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TIPS

10 questions and answers arising from the Federal High Court(FIRS) Practice Directions, 2021

By Chukwuemeka Eze Question One What is a Practice Direction? Answer According to Wikipedia, a practice direction is a supplemental protocol to rules of civil and criminal procedure in the courts – “a device to regulate minor procedural matters” – and is “an official announcement by the court laying down rules as to how it…

June 14, 202114Comments

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