Governments, especially the executive arm, tend to forget that it is the rule of law that makes it possible, in the first place, to define what national security is. They think national security is what the man or woman in power says it is – and quite often, meaning personal loyalty, convenience and security
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Prince Kasim Afegbua’s intervention on this page last week threw up some interesting aspects of the unfolding drama around the 2019 presidency, especially as it concerns the Governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. The governor’s ambition is said to be a major headache to the ruling party at the federal level and in most states of the federation
It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the ongoing Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule of law, has not yet generated any coherent response from either the Bar or the Bench.
Inter-Governmental Task Force set up by the Government of Ghana to regulate retail trade had arrested about 50 Nigerians. Many of them were detained. “The situation is not good at all, someone needs to come to their rescue; “ she said.
Of course, I got the job. It was not just me alone, my friends and their friends too. At the end of the process, about 5,000 residents of Lagos got the job just from an idea you thought about probably in your car or in the office amid your very busy schedule as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly or even while driving home and seeing the faces mapped with hunger, desolation and fear.
True! Nothing has the right to terminate your life just like that.
It was on August 27, 2015 that the curtains suddenly fell on a luminous epoch in the humanity and quintessential diplomacy of Prof. Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, a prolific writer and erudite scholar, while in the line of duty as Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States at his strategic outpost in Washington DC. He was two years close to the biblical three scores and ten years.
While we are basking in the euphoria of defections that have recently filled the polity, we must remain focused on the issues. It does appear that so far the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has benefited the most from the gale of defections.
The All Progressives Congress and the Buhari Presidency would have since began to concoct another lie to tell the people of the South East, if you like, the Igbo following, the recent declaration by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, that he will do only one term of four years if elected president next year.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State is increasingly becoming the Rochas Okorocha of the South West. With very little effort, he might surpass the latter, the self-acclaimed exponent of iberiberism (an Igbo slang which roughly translates as “the act or state of foolishness”).
Journalism, the Fourth Estate of the Realm and the society’s watchdog, is a profession that has paid its dues in nation building and that continues to play the inevitable surveillance function so that the country for which generations of men and women have laboured to build would not go on its knees.
The problem is that the media gullibly swallowed it hook, line and sinker and misrepresented a survey of 140 cities as a survey of the world’s millions of cities
Painful, sudden and shocking. But we give God praise and glory for a quiet but worthy and accomplished life.
The All Progressive Congress is at the losing end.
“You know sometimes when the President goes to London like that, we may then be told that his doctors have advised that he should spend another week or more. But we thank God this time oh.”
A child of God is not supposed to die anyhow. When you walk in the knowledge of a functional covenant with God nothing is permitted to take away your life prematurely. Nothing! Be it disease, demonic power, evil, hardship, or whatever. Nothing and I mean absolutely nothing is permitted to terminate your life before fully fulfilling God’s program. Everybody has an assignment(s) that brought them into the world. God cannot just waste His time and resources making a wonderful creature like you. Also look at all the things put into the process of bringing you into this world –
Being the presentation by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, as part of activities marking the Nigeria Union of Journalists Week in Kogi State on August 16, 2018
The enthronement ceremony, which was quite serene, was at the same time colourful due to the array of dignitaries who graced the occasion.
I say without any equivocation that this young man who is there now – Akinwunmi Ambode – has raised the stake of performance (in Lagos State), especially in infrastructure. – Olabode George, chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
The death of former Secretary-General of United Nations and Noble Peace Prize Laureate, Mr. Kofi Annan, in Bern, Switzerland today, August 18, 2018, is a loss to Africa and the entire world because of all that he represented.