Nigerian Lawyer, Tonye Jaja wins Leaders in Law – 2021 Global Awards

Dr. Tonye Clinton Jaja has emerged winner in the Leaders in Law - 2021 Global Awards. At the conclusion of a rigorous selection process by a United Kingdom (UK) based law firm, Jaja was adjudged “Legislative Drafting and Law Reform Lawyer of the Year in Nigeria.” Tonye Clinton Jaja, a law lecturer at the National…

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Opinion

Video: If you don’t want to fulfill the promise to end insecurity, we pray God separates us and you – Cleric to Buhari

He was curt, he was bold, and he was straight to the point in telling President Muhammadu Buhari in his flawless Hausa in a Friday sermon captured on Tik-tok that he met Nigeria as one entity and should not leave it divided. Below is a rough summary of Sheik Nuru Khalid of the Apo Legislators’…

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Opinion

Can Senior Advocate Of Nigeria [SAN] Appear In Upper Shari’a Court?

By Rabiu Muhammad Gama. Sheikh Abduljabbar Sheikh Nasir Kabara is a very popular name in the North, you may not be familiar with the name if you aren’t from the North – or if you don’t understand Hausa. For those of us that are not unfamiliar with the name, the bearer of the name is,…

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Opinion

Reminiscence Of NBA Kano/Ungogo Branches’ Visit To Governor Ganduje To Press Home The Implementation Of Financial Autonomy For The Judiciary: Our Husband Has Ran Mad Again!

By A. S. Gidan-Wankey, Esq. The memory verse! “I, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, do solemnly swear/affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; that as a Governor of Kano State, I will discharge my duties to the best of my ability, faithfully and in accordance with the Constitution…

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Opinion

#Project-2023: Great Lessons From Zambia, By Martins Oloja

As we continue with the debate on whether the scoundrels who brought down our Air-force planes, desecrated the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) and killed some soldiers, should be called bandits or terrorists, we need to make a quick trip to Zambia that has just been set free by the political sagacity of the youth in…

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A Plateau Bleeding Non-stop, By Simon Kolawole

Plateau state is back in the news again — and for the usual tragic reasons: maiming and killing in the name of God. In the last eight weeks, over 100 lives have been wasted in the state. Not by bandits or kidnappers, but by ethnic and religious warlords. On July 1, attacks left 34 people…

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Faith

Troublers of nations

Every Nation that is troubled is either troubled by a king Ahab or a prophet Elijah. AHAB represents everything evil and wrong with socio – political leadership and governance: wickedness, incompetence, injustice, insensitivity, oppression, corruption, nepotism and flagrant abuse of peoples rights and liberty. This is bad trouble for any nation and people. ELIJAH, on…

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The Law and You

Nigerian law protects right to self defence, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

In the face of the calculated and practiced indifference of the regime of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired) to the human carnage currently on-going in Nigeria, a debate has ensued about the legitimacy and practicability of community self defence as a counterpoise strategy. The mere fact that these questions arise is proof positive that Nigeria currently…

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Opinion

The Nigerian Medical Student: A Ticking Time Bomb

By Fatima DAMAGUM Our elders say that when two elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers. These mighty creatures pay no heed to the ground as they push, pull and hit one another. Indeed, it is the ground beneath them, the grass that is crushed, the soil that is ruined and the poor insects…

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Opinion

The Garbage in Shehu by Nathaniel Ikyur

It is not surprising how Garba Shehu, Presidential spokesperson came out, in his vintage style against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State. It was however amusing reading Shehu’s feeble attempt in the ten-paragraph irritating press release. He no doubt lost his voice under the weight of the governor’s concrete issues bordering on statecraft and the…

August 29, 20210Comments

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