Nigeria is world’s 7th largest exporter of Crude but will not sell to Dangote refinery

Any hope for artisanal refining in Nigeria? By Lillian Okenwa Although Nigeria is the 7th largest exporter of Crude Petroleum in the world, Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos which was inaugurated in May this year and described as the game changer for Nigeria’s economy is currently importing crude oil from outside the country. The…

September 20, 20230Comments

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Like many others, Nigeria happened to Dr. Vwaere Diaso…

By Lillian Okenwa The elevator of the General Hospital, Odan in Lagos State Nigeria has been reportedly faulty since 2018. It is incontrovertible that the hospital like other government bodies receives monetary allocations to run its affairs. It is also not in doubt that there is a head of maintenance in that hospital but typically,…

August 2, 20230Comments

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Appellate Court Justices: Occupational health, well-being, and other matters

When this article under the heading Saving the Supreme Court from Crises was published by The Cable on 12 November 2022, it addressed the multiple dimensions of the crises of attrition, retention, and replacement in Nigeria’s Supreme Court as well as the pathologies that make these resilient... Three issues were immediately in focus. One is occupational health and well-being…

July 31, 20230Comments

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Did the S’Court hold that polling units’ results transmitted/uploaded real time to IREV on election day, should not be reckoned with?

By Lillian Okenwa The battle continues to rage at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. In this illuminating conversation WhatsApp conversation, Prof. R. A. C. E. Achara, Ph.D. (Nig.), 2001-2002 University of Nigeria Postgraduate Prize man for Law, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Fellow of the Five College African Scholars Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Millennial…

July 11, 20230Comments

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On death row for N1,705 robbery, high-profile thieves enjoy light sentences

By Lillian Okenwa Following the Court of Appeal, Abuja’s recent sustaining of Abdulrasheed Maina’s conviction and eight-year sentence, public affairs analysts are again questioning the rationale behind a man stealing 2.1 billion naira and he is sentenced to only 8 years in prison with most of his loot left with him, while the same legal…

Rage is brewing…among young people- Chimamanda Adichie to Biden

Celebrated Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has joined in condemning the widespread irregularities, rigging, and manipulations of the results that greeted the just concluded 2023 election in Nigeria. Chimamanda’s open letter to President Joe Biden — Nigeria’s Hollow Democracy— published in The Atlantic on 6 April 2023 reads: Dear President Biden, Something remarkable happened on…

April 7, 20230Comments

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Lagos 50% bus fare reversal and weaponization of poverty in Nigeria

By Lillian Okenwa When a rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong said “Lagosians are back to the regime of real Governor Sanwo-Olu that they know, and not the pretentious one who tried to project himself as a populist or respecter of human rights during the campaigns,” a section of Nigerians condemned the utterance which he made with…

April 1, 20230Comments

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Child marriage to Kano Alhaji: Did the 11-year-old give her consent?

By Lillian Okenwa Many are still in doubt over the authenticity of a video that has been making the rounds over cyberspace, where a senior citizen from Kano state married an 11-year-old girl. Already, the video has garnered 2,274 retweets, 2,186 quote tweets, and 3,770 likes. See video. https://twitter.com/Ozoadaz/status/1636090944020783106?s=20 The ‘groom’ said to be a…

March 16, 20230Comments

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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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Between Omoseyin and the real abusers of Naira

By Ibe Ikwechegh The news media is awash with stories of the arrest of Oluwadarasimi Omoseyin, an actress and cosmetologist for allegedly spraying and stepping on the new Naira Notes, an offence, the authorities say is contrary to Section 21 of the CBN Act 2007. It is reported on one hand that she offered the…

February 5, 20230Comments

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