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With four months left to the retirement of the incumbent Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, tension seems to be enveloping the judiciary over allegations of plans to truncate the seniority rule in the appointment of his successor at the Supreme Court according to a report by Thisday newspapers. With the current Chief Justice of […]

Outrage greeted the news that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has hired 13 senior lawyers to defend him in a suit at a federal high court in Abuja challenging his eligibility for the office of president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria over his failure to present his WAEC certificate. The president’s legal team is made up […]Read More

by Pete Hoekstra Nigerian President Muhummadu Buhari writes of building an economic bridge to Nigeria’s future (“The Three Changes Nigeria Needs,” op-ed, June 14). It’s hard to see how his administration’s inflexibility, lack of vision and reactive approach will achieve this. Mr. Buhari notes that building trust is a priority for Nigeria. But an anti-corruption […]Read More

Benson Idonije: Dis Fela Sef!: The Legend(s) Untold- A Memoir. Lagos; FESTAC BOOKS, 2016, 282 pp. n the occasion of his 80th birthday, Benson Idonije, who is arguably Nigeria’s most informed analyst of jazz music and an enthusiastic promoter of popular culture and music has released for public review and consideration an absolutely well-informed biography […]

Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum on Thursday, June 16, visited Kurutie, Okerenkoko, for an on-the-spot assessment of the on-going construction of the Nigerian Maritime University. The university project has been abandoned and marked for destruction by embattled minister for transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. Dr. Kachikwu went without a retinue of guards […]

With less than 48 hours to the election in the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), indications emerged on Monday, June 13, 2016 night that the Presidency was planning to arrest it’s incumbent president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor and some other key officials of the association during its National Executive Council (NEC). Others planned to be arrested […]

Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, minister of petroleum resources, on Monday, June 13 in Uyo demonstrated to Rotimi Amaechi, minister for transportation on how to be a statesman and not a partisan crusader in political office. At a federal government town hall meeting in Akwa Ibom State, Amaechi tried to justify why he scrapped the Maritime University […]

Another secret recruitment has been uncovered in a federal government agency. This time, it is the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, that is embroiled in a scandal over the illegal employment exercise carried out by its executive chairman, Mr. Babatunde Fowler, a Buhari appointee. Fowler, who is a protege of a co-founder and disputed national […]

The new militant group operating in the oil-rich region of southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Avengers has announced a new attack on a pipeline belonging to the state-owned oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Akwa Ibom In a tweet on Thursday, June 15, 2016 the militants claimed responsibility a “4.00am on an NNPC pipeline […]

Justice ‎Adeniyi Ademola, of the Federal High Court in Abuja, has adjourned a suit challenging the eligibility of President Muhammadu Buhari for the office of president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria indefinitely. The suit filed by Mr. Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe, an Abuja-based lawyer is centred around Buhari’s ‘missing WAEC certificate,’ a hot topic during the 2015 […]Read More

n the last one year, Nigerian news media has reported that meetings have been taking place between Alhaji Mounir Gwarzo, the director general of the Securities & Exchange Commission, and Dr. Abraham Nwankwo, the director general of the Debt Management Office. Gwarzo is pushing for the the Debt Management Office to issue Sukuk Bonds on […]

Which is easier? Hiring 13 senior lawyers to build a team of 23 lawyers to defend a lawsuit in the Nigerian legal system or write to Cambridge and request for your WAEC certificate? Following a setback in his bid to stop a lawsuit based on the his inability to produce his WAEC certificate, President Muhammadu […]