A magical Children’s Day with FIDA

Hopes Nearly Dashed As Nigerian Doctor Saves Passenger’s Life Aboard Flight

The callous and unfeeling tendencies of the average today’s Nigerian was again manifest when a man who had almost escaped death aboard an airline nearly slipped away on account of negligent airport officials. Once deciding on a matter bothering on negligence, Hon. Justice SBA Candide Johnson said: “It is this type of reckless impunity and consciencelessness…

May 27, 20190Comments

Childrens Day: The Abnormal in Our Society Has Become Normal – Fapohunda

… 2,300 Nigerian children under five die daily As the world marks another Children’s Day, the plight of the Nigerian child, albeit the girl child has again come under scrutiny. Earlier in the year, the Ogun State Police Command, announced that its operatives had arrested a 45-year-old man, Idowu Owolabi, for allegedly raping his 21-year-old…

May 27, 20190Comments

Lawmakers Consistently Undermine the Position of our Women – Abuja Lawyer

…as Reps pass bill allowing married women to choose state of origin On Tuesday May 7, 2019, Nigeria’s House of Representatives passed a bill allowing married Nigerian women to choose their state of origin. The women will have the alternative of choosing either their father’s or husband’s state of origin if passed into law.…

May 20, 20190Comments

AI isn’t a destructive technology, only in the wrong hands – 14 year old AI Expert

…… launched his first program at six! “Child prodigies evoke awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of dedicated practice? Lucky for these despairing types, the prevailing wisdom suggests that such comparisons are unfair —…

May 13, 20194Comments

…And the court said yes!

. As the blizzard of ‘Happy New Year!,’ ‘Thank God we made it!’ and other New Year messages rocked the airwaves, at the beginning of this year, Kaduna state based Isah Aliyu had other ideas. He was tired of his marriage with Jamila and was determined to put an end to it. Before January expired,…

April 8, 201921Comments

5 arrested Nigerians in Dubai: Should I laugh or cry?

By Comrade Peter Esele Though the recent bank robbery by five Nigerian men was given an ethnic slant by Ms. Abike Dabiri, President Mohammadu Buhari's special adviser on foreign affairs and diaspora, Comrade Peter Esele, a former president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria, chose instead to scrutinize its effects on…

April 8, 2019164Comments

Onnoghen trial is a despicable, venal fantasy

By Chidi Odinkalu Despite manifest incongruities in the official story-line concerning Buhari’s decision to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria in Jan 2019, I was willing to suspend my disbelief & wait for government to present evidence to support its claims of asset malfeasance in the Onnoghen trial When it launched its fevered campaign against…

April 1, 20190Comments

Wrongfully Convicted Ex-Judge Wins Ruling in Malicious Prosecution Lawsuit

The judge found the DA’s prosecutors “were acting as investigators searching for probable cause, as opposed to acting as prosecutors with probable cause preparing for prosecution. As such, at this time, prosecutorial immunity does not protect the actions.” A former Texas district judge who was wrongfully convicted of nine felonies and later acquitted—because the allegations…

April 1, 20190Comments

Girls campaign to end child marriage

By Kirsten Okenwa Living in Northern Nigeria has made me somewhat thick skinned to girl-child brides. I do not cringe anymore when I pass them on the streets, or in the markets or malls. I am sure many citizens are like me. We have grown callous to this evil, and often look the other way. I used to…

April 1, 20192Comments