Operation Enduring Freedom: Passion not tanks is how you win wars, By Osmund Agbo

Free Copy of the Bye-Laws of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) 2015

by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK) Abuja is the Capital city of Nigeria, it is located in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Federal Capital Territory has six (6) Areas Councils; Abaji, Abuja, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kuje and Kwali. The Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) is the most developed of all the Area Councils, it houses most…

July 31, 202115Comments

Abba Kyari and his red flags of vulgar exhibitionism, By Farooq Kperogi

Although there is no art to decipher the cunning of crooked cops, DCP Abba Kyari gave us many red flags to cause us to be suspicious of his policing, but many people ignored it. I, for one, have an abiding suspicion of people who are given to gratuitous self-congratulation and ostentation, who are aggressively self-promotional,…

July 31, 202179Comments

The Banana peel under APC’s ricketty chair:

The body traps that lie ahead By Chief Mike A.A. Ozekhome, SAN, OFR, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION The APC has ruled Nigeria for over 6 years. It has failed in all indices of governance. The three core areas on which President Muhammadu Buhari campaigned as its candidate, have been honoured more in breach than in observance. They…

July 31, 20210Comments

A Twist in the Abba Kyari’s anti corruption tale

There is a book written by Jeffrey Archer, the popular British author. The book is called "A Twist In The Tale". It is a book of short stories and was published in 1988. It contains twelve short stories. One of the short stories is titled "Clean Sweep Ignatius". The short story is about corruption in…

Judiciary

Atsen, Aluko call for synergy between Bar and Bench

As AJUCCON holds Valedictory Session for Retiring Judges Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abuja Branch (Unity Bar) Mr. Bulus Atsen has called for a better working relationship between the Bar and the Bench. Atsen made the call yesterday at a valedictory session hosted by the Association of Judges of the Customary Court of…

Education

Only four per cent of northern girls completed secondary school: Report

Only four per cent of northern girls complete secondary school, says a survey by the Centre for Girl Child Education (CGE). The centre’s board member Binta Muhammad disclosed this on Thursday in Sokoto. Ms Muhammad stated that CGE was established in 2007 with 64 girls in rural communities in Kaduna after a baseline survey was…

Features

This is worth your time.

By Dare Babarinsa Being Nigerian Outside Nigeria: An Extra Burden Visiting Austria for the first time and realizing that the police officers are particularly interested in the same set of people: The Nigerians. I’ve been in and out of South Africa for the last five years. On my first arrival in Johannesburg, January 2014, I…

July 30, 202116Comments

Benin artifacts and the choice facing Robin Hood, By Azu Ishiekwene

When you find two people from the Benin kingdom talking these days, chances are that they are talking artifacts. That kingdom never ceases to amaze me with the mythical, almost perplexing rootedness of its people to the past, side by side with a modern, avantgarde spirit. Not that bread-and-butter issues have disappeared in Bini talk.…

Governor Mai Mala Buni As APC Interim Chairman, A Nullity Ab Initio

By Akintayo Balogun Esq. The news of the victory of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu at the Supreme Court in respect of his re-election as governor of Ondo State, must have been received with great joy and enthusiasm, most especially as it was a split judgment of four to three. It was just the decision of one…