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As the Continuity Bill that seeks to criminalise the abandonment of projects by governments passes its second reading at the National Assembly, there is a growing concern on how the law will be enforced. Presently, there is a Bill in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly seeking to compel governments at all levels to adopt planned development…
President Muhammadu Buhari got the first made-in-Nigeria phone, the ITF mobile, last Wednesday, June 10, 2021. While delivering the phones to the President, just before the Federal Executive Meeting, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, described them as the first-ever to be made in the country. The phone was one of…
President Muhammadu Buhari recently disclosed that he has directed the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) to carry out an upward review of salaries of police officers. The President also stated that 10,000 new personnel are being recruited into the force, declaring that no administration since 1999 was as committed as his administration in…
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for all economies around the world including Nigeria. The downturn in the Nigerian economy precedes the epidemic, however, as GDP per head has been on the descent since 2015. Presently, everything is now very expensive. Inflation is as high as 18%, while food is at 23%….
When General Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power in 1998, he set up a Constitutional Review Committee headed by late Honorable Justice Niki Tobi of the Supreme Court, who hailed from the South-South. The Committee, after touring the country stated in its report that based on the memorandums received, the majority of people in Nigeria were…
In Lagos, on Thursday, June 10, President Mohammadu Buhari launched the highly anticipated Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also known as the Deep Blue Project. The project assets consist of $195 million worth of equipment that will be deployed in a coordinated effort to secure Nigerian waters along the Gulf of Guinea. The…
As a Septuagenarian, I cannot but feel concerned for the way our great nation, Nigeria is going. In my first decades on earth which were spent in Nigeria, I saw Nigeria as a country that I was extremely proud of as my motherland. Few months before I graduated from the University of Lagos in 1972,…
I saw a video clip of a group of young Yoruba elites canvassing the creation of Oduduwa Republic. The spokesman claimed that they are not even interested in restructuring;, that it is late in the day, but the outright creation of Oduduwa Republic. Carrying placards, they insist they are fed up with Nigeria and that…
The current entanglement surrounding the suspension of a popular online platform, Twitter, seemed to have revealed what opposition politics in Nigeria is all about. It is rather regrettable that the well-being of citizens does not matter to most opponents of the government. Almost everything is about personalities and self-aggrandisement. The country’s brand of opposition politics…
The President asked a question: Can they say that I have not been governing according to the Constitution? In the practice of law, lawyers are always delighted when such an open question is asked, because it is an opportunity to take up the gauntlet that has been thrown and score damning points in a case,…
