The court orders freeing El-Zakzaky were strictly based on the isolated facts of his arrest and detention during the national security operation of December 2015, triggered by the daring blockade and confrontation of the convoy of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Burataiu, in Zaria, Kaduna State by his aggressive followers.
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In a re-assuring strategic response to the felt need for a futuristic approach to redressing the human resource and operational challenges affecting the intelligence, national security and law enforcement performance levels, the Department of State Services recently unveiled the National Institute for Security Studies, a welcome upgrade and refocusing of its existing training academy.
As Nigerians, we feel very insecure in our own country. Terrorism, inflation, corruption, injustice – all these words can be clearly seen, heard on our TV screen and newspaper headlines! It causes severe heart break in the heart of citizens! Fear and imbalance. Millions of lives keep dying
One of the saddest and indeed alarming commentaries about the management of public affairs in Nigeria is the recurring decimal of failed leadership since the formal attainment of political independence in 1960. While the country has had all manner of administrations at the local, sub-national and federal levels over the years, the overwhelming majority of the key actors have been more of potentates than leaders.
American theologian and writer, James Freeman Clarke, was famously credited with this quote: “A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”
It is curious, and certainly most embarrassing that our elected members of the National and State Assemblies throughout the federation have kept unusually quiet in the face of the horrendous horrors and unmitigated disasters assaulting this country and her citizens on daily basis. No part of the country is exempt from the gory spectacles we see on television screens, hear about on radio and read about in the newspapers, magazines and social media without ceasing. It appears the country is in a state of war.
“Not given to frivolities, he is a serious-minded person and that is almost evident in his visage,” said one of his associates. “Long after he has spoken, you still have so much to chew on; you see, there is a vast difference between knowledge and wisdom, but he is rich in both.”
It is not unlikely that within the academic community as well, some budding researchers in stylistics, writings, communications, dramatic arts and other related knowledge fields may have been making his works subjects of their dissertations. Such are some of the additions that fame can bring.
I would like to start by congratulating Lagos Traffic Radio for inaugurating these lecture series, but more importantly I congratulate Lagos Traffic Radio for staying alive.
We consider it of utmost importance to lay before you the facts we have met on ground and the enormous efforts required to address them. This is necessary in order to keep the records straight for posterity and for the purpose of making our leaders accountable.
President Muhammadu Buhari is not only giving Nigeria a bad name with his handling of the herdsmen crisis, the good people of Fulani should also understand that the president might have equally damaged their brand around the world.
Incontrovertibly, the recently suspended Ruga Settlement project was an initiative of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The rationale behind such project was to help eliminate the age-long practice of open grazing of cattle by Fulani pastoralists, which has been the cannon fodder for farmer/herder clashes.
But looked at very closely, Christianity in Nigeria is everything but in rude health. It is actually ailing and may find itself in the Intensive Care Unit sooner than later.
He ended up willingly signing a brokered “settlement” agreement that merely bought him time to pay long outstanding license fees of AIT/RayPower, and committed him to “take the necessary internal steps to ensure balance in their news coverage, especially political commentaries on it stations across the country, and take full editorial responsibility for the use of news contents sourced from social media and or any other avenue.”
The issue of lack of ideological anchor for our democratic dispensation has not received the attention it deserves so far largely because of the type of political leaders who have emerged to “deepen” democratic principles.
Here is a huge example of evil being perpetrated in Abuja and its environs by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company! On October 26, 2018, Sir Solomon Ejase-Tobrise Udele wrote a letter to the manager, AEDC, Galadimawa in Abuja, to report his observation on his meter number 0417677705, which seemed not to be functioning well.
From the above, even the blind can note the huge benefits that are in embedded in the project in fact, there are some other benefits which the country is gaining from the Railway contracts towards improving local content and capacity building in the sector
My Chairman, the Publisher of ThisDay Newspaper, Prince Nduka Obaigbena…The story of his life is not as smooth as a bowling ball gliding on a varnished lane. It is the story of a man who flailed and floundered against the maelstrom and headwind of a tempestuous home-grown economy but whose resilience and steadfastness kept on the straight and narrow path to fame and fortune.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” — John Adams, 2nd President of the United States.
The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Adamu Abdu-Kafarati, is due for retirement. He became a Judge of the Federal High Court on October 31, 1991.