Presidential Inauguration: A Solemn Oath in the Worst of Times

By Ibe Ikwechegh It is now known that at the moment, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has ceased to be Nigeria’s president-elect but is the president of Nigeria. The oath he took, together with his lieutenant on the 29th May 2023, was among other things, to bear true allegiance to the Federal Republic of Nigeria; To discharge his…

May 31, 20230Comments

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Nigeria urgently needs restructuring, Ahamba tells Tinubu

The call to restructure Nigeria has again come to the fore with Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ahamba, urging the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to urgently return the country to its productive days by having it restructured. Chief Ahamba remarked that the need to restructure as soon as possible would compel the component entities…

May 31, 20230Comments

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Breaking barriers

More wins as world record holder, Tobi Amusan earns her Masters from University of Texas El Paso

Reigning world champion in the 100m hurdles Tobi Amusan has added a Masters’ to her enviable collection of wins. Ms. Amusan who shared pictures and videos from the graduation ceremony on her Instagram account wrote: “ELOHIM is forever WORTHY of my PRAISE! Sat in my bed on a cold Tuesday night after an intense workout…

May 31, 20230Comments

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Lifestyle

Lawyers sure love to have fun

It has been said that "focusing on your health and wellness is the best investment you can ever make." In agreement with that axiom, Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Abuja (Unity Bar) Afam O. Okeke led lawyers on Saturday 27th May 2023, to participate in the Aerobic session organised by the Management of Jabi…

May 30, 20230Comments

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Living

Tales My Patients Told Me: When dramatic “death bed” confession comes back to haunt you!

Marge came to see me in my Elmont office one mid-Summer morning in 2018. Marge is a middle-aged African - American, married to a Nigerian. Both husband and wife and their children were registered patients in our medical practice. Very good people; a great stable family. Their teenage daughters were doing very well. The older…

May 30, 20230Comments

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Opinion

The “Emil’okan era has begun, Somber Tuesday series by Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome

SomberTuesday! The transition has ended. A new President is in office. While the lawsuits challenging the election results continue, the “emil’okan era has begun. It remains to be seen whether the courts would give serious consideration to the challengers’ claims. Yesterday, as the inauguration ceremonies proceeded, people did what they usually do with every administration.…

May 30, 20230Comments

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Flashback: Tinubu on 2012 Subsidy Removal Attempt – President Jonathan breaks social contract with the people

REMOVAL OF OIL SUBSIDY: PRESIDENT JONATHAN BREAKS SOCIAL CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE 11th January, 2012 By Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu As Nigerians gathered with family and friends to celebrate the New Year, the federal government was baking a national cake wrapped in the scheme that would instantly make the New Year a bitter one. Barely…

May 30, 20230Comments

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Tribute

My Elegy on the Sad Passage of High Chief Raymond Aleogho Ayaoghena Dokpesi, Ph.D., OFR

By Prof. Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR, Ph.D I am a very sad man as I write this. I am completely devastated by the ugly news of the rather sudden death of my elder brother, friend, kinsman, soul mate, and confidant, HIGH CHIEF RAYMOND ALEOGHO AYAOGHENA DOKPESI. Dokpesi had called me on WHATSAPP at about…

May 29, 20230Comments

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Features

Emeka Ngige notching up Council of Legal Education

By Law & Society Magazine On the occasion of his 60th birthday on 11 July 2021, he launched the “Nigeria Law School Support Initiative,” drawing the attention of friends and stakeholders to the dire infrastructural state of the Nigerian Law School (NLS) campuses. Making a passionate appeal on that day, Chief Emeka Ngige, (SAN) Chairman Council…

May 29, 20230Comments

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Opinion

Tinubu, fix the North, embrace the East

By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 29 May 2023) There is a road in Canada that is officially known as ‘Road to Nowhere’. Road signs there say so. At the terminal point of that road is virtually nothing apart from an access to a shooting range and a gated path that…

May 29, 20230Comments

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