‘Fulanisation’ of the North by the South, By Farooq Kperogi

Nigerian Television Authority’s boss, Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, is also on the list of “Fulani” appointees of strategic government agencies, but he is ethnically Jukun from Taraba State who grew up in Plateau State. NNPC boss Mele Kyari has also been assigned a “Fulani” ethnicity even though he is a straight-up Kanuri man from Borno. The only linguistically…

June 5, 20210Comments

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Opinion

WHEN A TOTTERING GOVERNMENT TWIDDLES TWITTER

By CHIEF MIKE A.A OZEKHOME, SAN, OFR, FCIArb, LL.M, Ph.D, LL.D. Today the Nigerian Government through the Information Minister, Mr Lai Mohammed, suspended indefinitely, operations of the Micro-blogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria. It was a retaliatory action against Twitter for humiliating President Buhari based on his incendiary statement against protesting Nigerians. …

June 5, 20210Comments

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TIPS

Is The Case Of Missing Person To Be Reported Only After 24 Hours?

Daily Law Tips (Tip 804) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Introduction: The public view in Nigeria is that a case of a missing person can only be reported to the Nigeria police after 24 hours of disappearance of the suspected missing person. Also, many police officers and law enforcement officers have been reported to…

June 5, 20210Comments

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News

‘I suddenly remembered why I fell in love with the President’, By Femi Adesina

President Muhammadu Buhari spoke on Tuesday, warning troublemakers in the country that the picnic was over, and the next day, I saw this comment online from a Buharist, as lovers and admirers of the President are known. “I just finished watching the President on TV reading the riot act to troublemakers, and I couldn’t be…

June 5, 2021219Comments

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Opinion

The place of Ndigbo in Nigeria, By Dike Chukwumerije

For anyone who believes in Nigeria, particularly those of us Igbos who do, there can be no days tougher than the ones we are currently living in. I tell you, between the growing radicalism at home and the rigid parochialism at the centre, we are caught between a rock and a very hard place. In a way,…

June 5, 20210Comments

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TIPS

Scarcity of Passport and the Government’s Violation of the Right of Movement

Scarcity of Passport and the Government’s Violation of the Right of Movement. Daily Law Tips (Tip 801) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Introduction: Nigeria is a sovereign democratic state that makes its own laws. By the laws in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria handles issues of passports (travel document and immigration). It is…

June 5, 20210Comments

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Opinion

What is the endgame in Nigeria’s South East? By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria has been struggling with insecurity for over a decade. Against reasonable expectations six years ago when President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in, things have worsened. Compared with a number of other hotspots around the world in December 2020, however, Nigeria was not even among the three riskiest places. According to global medical and security specialists, International…

June 4, 20210Comments

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Opinion

Police and Gulak’s ‘Onions assassins

By Abimbola Adelakun The so-called investigation by the Nigeria Police Force over the assassination of former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, is highly unsatisfying. Their synopsis of what transpired is riddled with so many holes and hardly sensible. The NPF’s reports are customarily frustrating to read. They are habitually riddled with typos and flawed logic. Read…

June 4, 202133Comments

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Opinion

PRESIDENT BUHARI’S DRUMS OF WAR AND TWITTER’S REACTION.

BY: CHIEF MIKE OZEKHOME, SAN, OFR, Ph.D. The most trending issue of the moment involves Twitter's deletion of President Buhari's threats to some Nigerians whom he described as “many people misbehaving today were too young to remember the deaths and destruction from the civil war “. He then threatened, “those of us who went through…

June 4, 20210Comments

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Features

Ozoemena, not another war!

June 3, 20210Comments

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