The Yoruba And The Igbo

By Ikeazor Akaraiwe, SAN 1: At a time like this, with threats of violence and actual violence against the Igbo over electoral choices, I have said it before and will say it again, that: 2: The Yoruba as a people are not enemies of the Igbo. And vice versa. 3: It is persons who are…

March 10, 20230Comments

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Living

Tales My Patients Told Me: “Doctor, I have found my Daddy!”

By Emmanuel Fashakin This interesting edition of “Tales my patients told me" was written in July 2015. At 34 years of age, Christina has been married only once, yet she has had FOUR last names in her lifetime. When Christina was born, Carmen, her mom had no doubt about who her father was. Even though…

March 10, 20230Comments

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Opinion

Does the NBA President really speak for all Nigerian Lawyers, always?

By Sylvester Udemezue Section 9(5)(a)(vi) of the Constitution of the Nigerian Bar Association, 2015 provides that "The duties of the President shall include Acting as the principal spokesman of the Association". Beside this, the position of the law in Nigeria is that when a person gets called or inducted into the Nigerian Bar (during the…

March 7, 20230Comments

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Opinion

INEC as engine of fraud

By Sonnie Ekwowusi The February 25, 2023 presidential election is a counterfeit of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. Whereas June 12 is the freest and fairest election in Nigeria, the February 25 election is the most rigged and most robbed presidential election in Nigeria. On June 12, 1993, the freest presidential election took place…

March 7, 20230Comments

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Opinion

#NigeriaDecides2023: A tragic farce

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Despite recent advances in Malawi and Zambia, elective government stutters and sputters to the uncertain rhythms of pathogens and politicians across Africa. The onset of 2022 served notice that #NigeriaDecides2023 is likely to be the most complex and most watched in a brutal biennium for elective governance in the continent. In…

March 5, 20230Comments

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Living

Tales My Patients Told Me: When the Taliban came calling

By Emmanuel Fashakin This scene was in Flushing, New York. June 2013. Shazia was a regular patient in the practice for a few years, attending with her four children. She was one of the many patients from Afghanistan, very friendly and loving people. The wars in Afghanistan, starting with the invasion by the Soviet…

March 4, 20230Comments

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Features

#NigeriaDecides 2023: And the debates go on about a presidential candidate who did not win the FCT

By Lillian Okenwa Lawyers have remained unrelenting in their arguments about whether a presidential candidate who did not win the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, can legally and constitutionally be declared winner of the just concluded presidential Election. Senior Advocate of Nigeria and rights activist, Femi Falana had in a statement asserted that the law…

March 4, 20230Comments

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spotlight

Prophet to spend 21 years in jail for raping 10-year-old stepdaughter, as teacher bags life for having near daily sex with 6-year-old pupil

For raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter, one Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien has been sentenced to 21 years of pedophilic break in prison. The self-confessed prophet put the blame on the ever-ubiquitous devil while pleading that a demon pushed him in the midnight to forcefully remove the clothes of his step-daughter and have unlawful carnal knowledge of…

March 1, 20230Comments

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