By Sonnie Ekwowusi
I want to thank the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Abuja for joining issues with me in its very thoughtful rejoinder entitled, Re: Whither Corporate Affairs Commission? A Rejoinder (published as a paid advertorial in THISDAY, Thursday, July 22, 2021, CAC Website and on virtually all the social media spaces and outlets in…
Inside stuff With MARTINS OLOJA
This is not a lamentation on Abba Kyari and what the nation and FBI would like to do with him. Nor is it another opportunity to ask the governing party and indeed our current leaders the kind of police force they want to secure us internally. After all, we may…
By Jibrin Samuel Okutepa SAN
1.0. In this write up I shall attempt to examine the constitutionality of appointments of caretaker committees to run the affairs of political parties in Nigeria. Yesterday the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the Appeal filed by Mr Eyitayo Jegede SAN vs Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, this constitutional issue came up.…
Since the Chibok Girls kidnap in Borno State in 2014 by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgent group, it seems kidnapping of young people in schools has become the latest money-spinner among rogue groups. But how do parents deal with the emotion of raising and paying huge ransom money and yet not get their children back?…
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,…
In the Preface to my book entitled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend, (2020) I equated stardom and zenith of social ladder with the purport of a Yoruba wise-saying which says, epo ni mo ru, oniyangi, ma ba t’emi je. This literally translates to mean, anyone who shoulders a heavy gallon of…
My hands are clean' -- DCP Abba Kyari denies Hushpuppi bribe allegation
In the Preface to my book entitled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend, (2020) I equated stardom and zenith of social ladder with the purport of a Yoruba wise-saying which says, epo ni mo ru, oniyangi, ma ba t’emi je. This literally translates…