Currency Redesign: Open letter to Governor Nasir El-Rufai by Gloria Mabiam Ballason Esq.

Dear Governor Nasir Elrufai, In the normal course of events, this would have been an engagement on marking down your last 100 days as Governor of Kaduna, Nigeria's third-largest state. However, your sudden love for the masses and the rule of law against your customary disdain for the masses and penchant for picking and choosing…

February 17, 20230Comments

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Living

Tales My Patients Told Me: Grandpa sings Tra la la; Grandma Tro lo lo!

First week of January 2023, Johnny, a 78-year-old Grandpa returned from the Christmas/New Year holidays in the Bahamas and came to the Richmond Hill office for his annual check-up. The visit went very well. Physical examination was unremarkable. Electrocardiogram showed no new changes. Blood tests were ordered and medications were renewed. I ended the visit…

February 16, 20230Comments

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Features

Judicial Coups: Lessons from IBB

By Calixthus Okoruwa The years of military coups are now best forgotten by Nigerians. But they were years in which military adventurers turned Nigeria into one huge playing field, in an unbridled quest for political power. Even though coups were a widespread military phenomenon, General Ibrahim B. Babangida (IBB) is deliberately used to headline this…

February 16, 20230Comments

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Opinion

Even if one treats the CBN as an ‘Agency’ of the Federal Government, the Supreme Court still lacks original jurisdiction to entertain lawsuits over CBN’s Naira redesign, withdrawal, and swap policies — A reply to Femi Falana, SAN

By Sylvester Udemezue Please, I beg my readers and all to make out time and read my first three works on the brouhaha over the Naira Redesign, Withdrawal Limit and swap policies of the CBN, and on whether the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in a lawsuit filed in respect thereof: (1). "Re: “Give Me…

February 15, 20230Comments

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spotlight

Court Judgments are Open to Criticism

Statement by Ben Nwabueze Center for Constitutional Studies and the Rule of Law It is obvious that some of the recent judgments of the Nigerian courts, especially the Supreme Court, in high-profile political cases have generated understandable controversy. Understandable, because some seemingly settled principles of law have been made by the decisions to appear not…

February 15, 20230Comments

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Cover

So the actress is in Kirikiri for spraying naira notes but where are the big guys?

By Lillian Okenwa Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, the 31-year-old Nigerian actress who was said to have sprayed naira notes at a public event has now been sent to the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the determination of her bail application. Hon. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos ordered the remand of Omoseyin…

February 15, 20230Comments

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Opinion

2023 Elections: Will the grand promises be fulfilled? Somber Tuesday series by Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome

#SomberTuesday! It’s Valentine’s Day. I pray that all Nigerians experience love despite the difficulties of coping with various challenges, including having to buy new notes with old ones, rising fuel costs, and anxiety over the possibility of electoral violence. Political candidates for office and their proxies are now having final rallies since the elections are…

February 14, 20230Comments

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Opinion

INEC: A call to duty!

By Kachi Okezie Delivering a FREE, FAIR AND CREDIBLE ELECTION, is to all intents and practical purposes, the sole raison d'tere of INEC, the INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (uppercase supplied for emphasis). This, as a national strategic goal for the institution, includes being seen to be doing so. However, it would appear so…

February 14, 20230Comments

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Opinion

Supreme Court of Nigeria and the Naira Swap brouhaha: When Non-Joinder Is Fatal

By Sylvester Udemezue May I humbly appeal that you kindly make out time and first read my earlier opinion titled "Naira Redesign and Swap Hullabaloo: Why I Think the Supreme Court of Nigeria Lacks Original Jurisdiction" (10 February 2023; it is online) to see that, as I submitted in that commentary, virtually all the issues…

February 12, 20230Comments

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Opinion

Supreme Hooliganism?

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In June 2020, Malawians took to the streets and the judges joined to resist the attempt by President Peter Mutharika to fire Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda in order to enable him rig a presidential re-run. The people trusted the Chief Justice more than the president, so they got rid of the…

February 11, 20230Comments

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