The president’s grazing routes
Very recently, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the entire nation when he announced that he had discovered 368 grazing routes across…
National conference against impunity (2)
Impunity within the arms and tiers of government The next culture of impunity is found within the three arms of…
National conference against impunity in Nigeria (1)
Some weeks back, I was invited as a guest speaker at the 24th Wole Soyinka Lecture Series. It was a golden…
MOHAMMED FAWEHINMI: Gone too soon
He used to come then like a guest, not really involved in the day to day business of the Chambers,…
Anambra and the primaries of blood and mammon
Politicians are at their game again. All over the land, it is one political crisis or the other, arising from…
Govt, of power without power
Statutory Obligation: “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government.” - Section 14 (2)…
Nigeria and Twitter (2)
IT is now well over a month since the government of Nigeria suspended the operations of the microblogging platform, Twitter,…
The courts’ annual vacation
Towards or by the end of July, 2021, most courts in Nigeria will be on break, to observe the usual…
JAMB and the battles against education (2)
In this column last week, I discussed the seeming crave by national institutions and agencies to become fundraising agencies, using…
JAMB and the battles against education
LAST week, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed the success and failure…
Nigeria and the unchanging face of politicians
The real time to know whether political games have changed for the better in Nigeria is when there is a…
Open grazing: Buhari, presidency and the rest of us
VERY recently, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked many people with his multiple interviews, his many official outings and his addresses to…
Echoes of June 12
On May 16, 2019, the National Assembly of Nigeria passed an amendment of the Public Holidays Act to change Democracy…
Nigeria and Twitter
We are in perilous times in our land, given the flurry of events in the past one week. It started…
Military rule in Nigeria: Perish the thought (2)
L AST week, I did an x-ray of the strange suggestion for military takeover of the affairs of Nigeria, on…
Military rule in Nigeria: Perish the thought
A few weeks back, I sat down listening to an elder statesman, an experienced Learned Senior Counsel and one who…
Judicial Financial Autonomy: A way forward for the administration of justice in Nigeria (3)
In 2015 when the present government was seeking power from the electorate, it would have been suicidal to think of…
Judicial Financial Autonomy —A way forward for the administration of justice in Nigeria (2)
It is well over a month that the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, embarked upon their industrial strike action…
Judicial Financial Autonomy: A way forward for the administration of justice in Nigeria (1)
The Nigerian Bar Association, Gwagwalada Branch held a Webinar to deliberate on the above topic, with participants drawn from across…
JUSUN strike and the Nigerian factor
The courts are still locked, for good cause. The rigmarole between the Federal and the State governments in respect of…
