Why attack Peter Obi’s supporters?

October 31, 20220Comments

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Let’s outgrow the whether-fragment format of issue framing

By Chinua Asuzu The whether-fragment is the commonest, darkest, ugliest, and worst method of stating issues. The whether-fragment “states what should be a direct question as an indirect question in the form of a statement fragment. But that’s the least of the problems. The whether-question is invariably either highly abstract and therefore incomprehensible or else…

Man stabs partner over 100 times, chops off her head for refusing him sex

“In Ghana, wife sexual refusal is a key factor in uxoricides or husband-to-wife murders. Despite this, there is a dearth of systematic research that examines sexual strife as a precipitant of domestic violence and spousal murder,” wrote Mensah Adinkrah in an article When a Wife Says “No”: Wife Sexual Refusal as a Factor in Husband–Wife…

Opinion

A Litigator’s guide for navigating Nigeria’s environmental justice system

A paper delivered by Eko Ejembi Eko, SAN, MCIArb (UK) at the C.O. Anah, SAN memorial colloquium, NBA House, Abuja. INTRODUCTION. In its traditional sense, the concept of environmental justice, derives strictly from environmental rights, environmental protection, environmental safeguards and the interweave between them and the ascendancy of environmental laws, statutes and relevant policies as interpreted…

Photo news: NBA Abuja hosts cancer awareness walk

Members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Abuja Branch (Unity Bar), at the weekend had a Cancer Awareness Walk. See photos below.

Opinion

A Supreme Court of Crises?

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In March 2017, columnist, Eric Teniola, began his article tracing the history of appointments to the Nigerian Supreme Court with the following lines: “[c]risis is not new to the Supreme Court in Nigeria. From inception, there has always been one crisis or the other in that court.” That crisis of appointment…

When rats got high on hemp at NDLEA

By Lillian Okenwa An animation movie —The Great Cheese Conspiracy, adapted from Jean Van Leeuwen’s book with the same title tells the humorous tale of a mouse gang who decide to hit the big time and rob a cheese shop having grown tired of the slim pickings of their movie-theater home. What they didn't envisage…

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Litigate with missionary zeal

By Chinua Asuzu Commit yourself to your client and devote your time and thoughts to the client’s work. “Advocates must try to be totally committed.” Iain Morley, The Devil’s Advocate, 3rd ed. (Sweet & Maxwell, 2015), 39. Think of your client; pray for your client; share your client’s angst, pain, or predicament. Moderate the outmoded…

This is my story: Pregnant, 46, divorced, but no Regrets! – Former CNN correspondent Isha Sesay

An author, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and the founder of a non-profit to empower African girls. For more than 13 years, Isha Sesay, CEO of OkayMedia was an anchor at CNN International, travelling all over the world to cover global topics and interview newsmakers. In her private moments, however, she said, “the one thing I wanted the…

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The deep-issue format in written advocacy

By Chinua Asuzu Do you begin your issue statements with the word “whether”? STOP IT. Why? Let me tell you a story. It’s past 3 pm. You’ve just got home from a long, hard day in court. The judge was a Hippy Hallet if ever there was one—she asked more questions than both counsel combined.…