Time to review your regulatory regime, Canadian Deputy High Commissioner tells FG

By Rahila Dauda The Deputy High Commissioner of Canada and Senior Trade Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Teshome Nkruma has called on the Federal Government to re-assess its regulatory regime as many start-ups are relocating to friendlier countries. Mr. Teshome Nkruma who was a guest at a recent webinar titled Bridge Builder #8: Conversation with Global…

January 31, 20220Comments

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My Notes

Nigeria’s sex industry and booming aphrodisiacs trade

By Lillian Okenwa As the social media continues to buzz over the arrest and detention of intimate products seller Hauwa Saidu popularly known by many as Jaruma Empire by officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) following her feud with actress Regina Daniels and her billionaire husband, Ned Nwoko, the demand for sexual enhancement potions…

January 31, 20220Comments

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Features

France’s extortion of Haiti is worst state-sponsored heist in history

Much of the reparations debate has revolved around whether the United States and the United Kingdom should finally compensate some of their citizens for the economic and social costs of slavery that still linger today. But to me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti. I’m a specialist on colonialism and slavery, and…

January 31, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Buhari, Jonathan, Obasanjo, Sanusi, Okonjo-Iweala: When Heroes Disappoint

By Tony Eluemunor How many times have you heard it said that the right thing to do is to remove the subsidy on petroleum products? I wonder why our leaders are not filled with shame when they betray their country by uttering that supreme insult on the people of Nigeria. President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck…

January 31, 20220Comments

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The Law and You

Use Of Dead Bodies For Training Medical Students

OBSCURE LEGAL FACTS BY AROME ABU In Nigeria, a person may in his Will or in any other written statement signed in the presence of 2 witnesses donate his/her body to be used after his/her death for training of students in health science. See Section 55 and 56(a) of the National Health Act. Arome Abu…

January 31, 20220Comments

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Opinion

Chief Akintunde And The Burden Of NBA Elections

By Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, Notary Public With the inauguration of Electoral Commiittee of Nigerian Bar Association (ECNBA) on the 24th January 2022 by Mr. Olumide Akapata, the President of the Nigerian Bar Association, the ball seems to have been set rolling for this year election of the National Officers of the Association. The ECNBA this time…

January 31, 20220Comments

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The Law and You

LAW DEGREES AND THEIR MEANINGS, by Chinua Asuzu

The undergraduate degree in law is Bachelor of Laws (LLB). LLB is spelt LLB or LL.B., never L.L.B. This strange abbreviation comes from Latin. The Latin word lex means “law.” The plural of lex is legum. Creating an abbreviation for a plural, especially in Latin, is done by doubling the first letter of the noun.…

January 31, 20220Comments

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Breaking barriers

Former Honduras’ first lady becomes first female president

Amid a sea of waving flags in the national stadium on Thursday, Xiomara Castro was sworn in as the first female president of Honduras. Her inauguration is a sequel to a landslide victory in the November 2021 presidential elections. A democratic socialist, Xiomara Castro first seized the political spotlight in 2009 when she led a…

January 28, 20221KComments

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Faith

Speak Words of Healing

I would strengthen you with my mouth. Job 16:5 NKJV Even when a surgery is successful, the patient can carry within them scar tissue that causes lingering pain and discomfort. And it’s the same in life. Some people around you wear a mask of success, but within, they carry wounds they’re unable to talk about.…

January 28, 202236Comments

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Education

“My names are …”? Like, seriously? What have you been drinking?

By Chinua Asuzu “My names are …” is awful, harmful, hurtful, painful, and sinful English. “My names are …” is mangled grammar on steroids. The English language comes from England. There, everybody, from Cambridge to Oxford, from Fleet Street to High Street, from the law firm to the marketplace, says “My name is ….” Today,…

January 28, 20227Comments

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