Opinion/Feature

Is the Judiciary besieged?

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

ldquo;If your desire is for Good, the people will be Good rdquo; Confuicius (551-479BCE) There is now the national conversations around the theme of how well we can contextualize the Nigerian judiciary as an independent arm of government as provided for in the constitution of the Federal Republ ...

`Re : "Buratai's brute bruises on Nigerian troops" by Dr Festus Adedayo, - A Re

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The aptness in the aphorism that a leopard never changes its spot resonated over the weekend precisely on June 23, 2019 in a watered and colorless article in TheCable News online journal, written by one Festus Adedayo, the recently disgraced one-day Chief Press Secretary of the President of the Nige ...

Osun Governorship: Battle between Constitutional Breaches and Technical Frivolit

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The just concluded hearing of Osun governorship appeal is an eye opener to how a section of the bar is consistently fixated on dragging the bar and bench in the mud through amplified frivolous technicalities.In fact,the challenge of justice delivery is further worsened by some senior lawyers who rea ...

Lawless Lawmakers

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The stench oozing from Bauchi State and Edo State is so suffocating that believers of democracy are literally gasping for air. It is the most despicable and nauseating disposition of our legislators as a bunch of law breakers. That is the irony of the political tragedy of Nigeria that those who are ...

Nigeria’s Revenant Security Trends

Monday, June 24, 2019

QUOTE: ldquo;We are a nation in denial. Rising insecurity in Nigeria did not happen in a vacuum. The ldquo;indicators of conduciveness rdquo; were discernible. We compartmentalize security to our own detriment. rdquo; Nigeria is security challenged. No national interest issue has ...

Firestorm of insecurity and impunity in Nigeria

Monday, June 24, 2019

Malcom N. Shaw, Queens Counsel, is a senior fellow at the Lautorpacht Centre for international law, university of Cambridge, United Kingdom. In the preambles to his scholarly work on international law, he had stated as follows: ldquo;law is that element which binds the members of ...

Religion And Social Order

Monday, June 24, 2019

The Bishop of Hereford was once being patronized by a great lord who talked very proudly. ldquo;I never go to church, rdquo; boasted the lord. ldquo;Perhaps you have noticed that, Bishop? rdquo; ldquo;Yes, I have noticed it, rdquo; answered the Bishop gravely. ldquo;Well, the reason I don rsquo; ...

Public Institutions and Public Trust

Monday, June 24, 2019

Talking about the public institution, Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography titled; The Story of My Experiment with Truth, among other things stated that a public institution is an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds of the public, warning that whenever such an institution ceas ...