Some strategies to strengthen the nation, by Hassan Gimba
This was first written on March 17, 2024, with a different headline. Perhaps we may still find it relevant in these trying…
Commentary
In the Matter of the Yam Eating Division of the FCT High Court, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
“Rights are only worth having if they are occasionally boisterous, often inconvenient and frequently tiresome.” Inigo Bing, The Ten Legal…
NNPC Ltd: An all-round asset to Nigeria, By Olufemi Soneye
In its editorial of 2nd August, 2024, the BusinessDay newspaper, characteristically, launched another scurrilous and baseless attack on the Nigerian…
We condemn the repression of the peaceful protests of Nigerian youth, by Femi Falana, SAN
Recently, Nigerian youths announced their wish to protest against bad governance in the country from August 1-10, 2024. Various organisations…
Lethal illegitimacy and the right to protest in Nigeria, by Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
115 years ago, in 1909, Walter Egerton, the Barrister-turned-colonial administrator, and then Governor, introduced the Sedition Ordinance into the…
Prostate: At 58, God has given me a second chance, by Yusuph Olaniyonu
Perhaps I should not be alive. But I am… I am still frail and fragile. But now, I can stand…
August 1, 2024: Much ado about nothing, asks Bola Bolawole
Those threatening to stage nationwide protests are badly heating up the polity. The government that is fretting about it is…
Why August 1 hardship protest should not hold, by Dr Bode Gbore
I remember that, while the EndSARS 2020 protest was being planned, the Northern Elders held a meeting and agreed on…
The man in Wole Soyinka has not died, by Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR
Till date, I have not still been able to finish reading this enigma’s epic, “The Man Died”, since I picked…
The hardship protests and a nation on edge, by Kazeem Akintunde
Nigeria is presently a nation on the edge. The reason is quite glaring for all to see. The masses, especially…