Category: Opinion

By Martins Oloja Now that the fear of the Supreme Court is gone for the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, this seems to be the right time for the President to fix the chaos that has taken some steam out of the awesomeness that is usually inherent in presidential palace. Doubtless, there have been too […]

Notwithstanding the federal law mandating hospitals to treat victims of gunshots with or without police treatment in order to save precious and innocent lives, it has become necessary for the government to embrace sterner measures to make this effective, following various incidences of non-compliance that have resulted in untimely deaths. The rising wave of new-age […]

A statement issued the other day by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice debunking speculation in the public sphere of a possible plea bargain arrangement between the government and the former Governor of the Central Bank came at a good time. To some extent, it may have helped to […]

By Abdu Rafiu The economic battering Nigerians have been undergoing for quite a while could not but attract attention, not only of the authorities, but even of some citizens who have had their sensibilities assailed by what they see around them. The compelling need to do something about this became heightened with the removal of […]

By Bola Bolawole Two elephants are rumbling on the streets (not in the forests) of Rivers State and the people (not the grass), as they say, are suffering. The elephants are the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and his immediate predecessor and now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. Wike is the godfather and […]

By Martins Oloja Now that the the Supreme Court has confirmed the election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s President from May 29, 2023 to May 29, 2027, we have a responsibility to take back our humanity and our country we almost lost to the complex politics of our controversial electoral justice system. What […]

Being Honourable Justice Odemwengie Uwaifo’s valedictory speech on his retirement as Justice of the Supreme Court,  delivered on January 24, 2004. This is one special occasion I found difficult in my choice as to what to say and how to begin. Then I remembered what a Justice of the United States, known for his traditional […]

The release of Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, in Benin Republic after two years of incarceration in the country over his quest for an independent Yoruba State and campaign against killer herdsmen in Nigeria has rightly been hailed across sections of the country. It is indeed a welcome […]

Lawyers at an election tribunal By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa There is an ill wind blowing through the fabric of our judicial system that may affect all of us ultimately, if not arrested urgently. In one way or the other, we are all potential litigants. Democracy is accepted worldwide as the best method of leadership recruitment, as […]