Issues/Policy

We are a group of Senior Advocates of Nigeria who feel embarrassed and deeply concerned by the recent events surrounding the suspension of Honourable Justice W. S. N. Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. […]

The sluggish progress on one of the government’s flagship policies makes it rather unlikely that the stated target will be achieved by 2020. Teneo’s Liewerscheidt actually questioned “whether [this] ‘shotgun approach’ to industrialisation will yield […]

Over the centuries, America and the West have behaved like goons, seizing other peoples’ lands and wealth, enslaving millions, carrying out genocide in Australia and America, and their leaders in the 21st Century have not […]

One thing is certain; tyranny will always have cheerleaders. When Adolf Hitler was asphyxiating Jews in death chambers, there were people who cheered him on. When General Sani Abacha was drawing blood from all who […]

Transparency International, the global corruption watchdog, issued its 2018 Corruption Perception Index this week. And the news is bad for the Buhari administration. It said that Nigeria “was still perceived as highly corrupt” Meaning the […]

The time shall come when our present time shall be recorded as a time out of mind. And the recorder who is recording and recollecting the time shall call it Justice Walter Onnoghen’s time as […]

The much talked about Presidential Debate scheduled to hold on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, has come and gone but not without its dramas that have kept Nigerians wondering and […]

Senator Mahmud Waziri (1936-2012) died on September 18, 2012 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He was elected from Adamawa on the platform of GNPP in 1979 and served till 1983. He was a member of three […]

Exactly one week ago, President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), over alleged false assets declaration. In his speech at the occasion where Onnoghen was suspended and Ibrahim Muhammad appointed in […]

The action of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) holding rates steady for the 15th time in the last 30 months portrays the apex bank as one that would rather err on the side of […]

We are animals. Man in all his glory and by whatever means he came into being, whether through the divine biblical account of creation or the evolutionary process as articulated by Darwin, has ended up […]

With barely two weeks to Nigeria’s February 16, 2019 presidential elections, ominous clouds are gathering over the country. As a concerned citizen, and one committed to peace, dignity and sovereignty of our dear motherland, I […]

The news media have only two words for it: mammoth crowd. This is the crowd you see at campaign rallies of the political parties. The two front-runner parties, APC and PDP, and their presidential candidates, […]

“FG approves N30,000 for its staff”. “National Council of States recommends N27, 000.” AIT, January 23, 2019. Insanity has been described by sages elsewhere as “doing the same thing all over again and expecting a […]

When unity in diversity is being zealously canvassed by people who hope against hope in their belief of Nigeria project, the glaring reality is that the retrogression to the days of Dark Age is steady […]

…not a few believe that the APC administration is unnecessarily rocking the boat with the Onneghen trial, on the eve of the February 2019 elections. They say the government is desperate to clobber the judiciary […]

Gazans are crazy about the Super Eagles. They sway and float with the fortunes of the team. Many Gazan men can reel off the names of the national team players from as far back as […]

It made an interesting reading late last year when it was reported that AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing company, and Tilray, a Canadian firm, had entered a $100m partnership to conduct research on cannabis-based […]

On Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, responded to the trio of the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union who had expressed concerns […]

Onnoghen’s seeming crisis of honour and lack of self-respect has led to the degeneration of this matter into a full blown constitutional crisis. Other not-too-palatable decisions have been made by the executive arm of government, […]