Category: Opinion

The recent complaint by 14 justices of the Supreme Court, against the retired Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, is easily a scandal that is unbefitting to the nation’s apex court and by extension, the judiciary. The 14 justices, in a letter, confronted Muhammad and accused his office of financial mismanagement, maladministration and […]

Ex-CJN must be investigated The resignation of Justice Muhammadu Tanko as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), following allegations of dereliction of duty, misappropriation of resources and abuse of power, by the rest 14 Justices of the Supreme Court, is a welcome development, but not enough to stall an investigation of the grave allegations. Even though […]

By Emeka Omeihe Mob justice! That seemed the figurative response former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice got as reports filtered on their alleged trafficking of a 15-year old boy to the United Kingdom for organ harvesting. Their arraignment at the Uxbridge Magistrate’s Court for the same alleged offences further incensed the […]

Contrary to some opinions that the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed, should be commended for “resigning honourably” on health grounds, we urge the National Assembly to press forward with its probe of his tenure. The public deserves to know the merits or otherwise of the allegations of corruption and incompetence […]

The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, was right to have frowned, as it recently did, at President Muhammadu Buhari’s call on the International Community especially the United States of America and United Kingdom to declare the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group. The President’s request chases shadows rather than substance; he will […]

Youths queuing to obtain their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi Acting on the strength of the current political tempo (or is it temperature) in the country, which encourages all to obtain their Permanent Voters Cards (PVC), I took a trip to one of the Government buildings in Lagos venue of the programme. […]

By Kene Obiezu It has been eight years, but like a festering wound, the national slight that Chibok in Borno State Nigeria represents just refuses to go away, becoming in the process the symbol of the sinister scar that was first scratched into the soul of a country that has never remained the same. A […]

Report that no fewer than 800 Nigerians are awaiting execution in South Asian countries over drug-related crimes is devastating. It merely underscores the degenerate state of a country whose image on the global arena is fast waning. Yet, Nigeria is a country with great potentials in human and material resources, begging only for responsible and […]

By Martins Oloja My brother, it is becoming increasingly disconcerting and very curiously so that it is safer to be a Christian in Afghanistan and Pakistan than in Nigeria. It is really concerning…How are you and family faring…? THAT is an excerpt from one of the many messages that I have been receiving from diplomats, […]