The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, arraigned the former governor of Taraba State, Darius Dickson Ishaku and former permanent secretary, Bureau for
Month: September 2024
HURIWA Seeks UNHRC Protection for October 1 Peaceful Protesters
Following the plan series of peaceful protests on October 1st 2024 to demonstrate against the heightened costs of living and bad governance, the Human Rights
October 1st Protests: HURIWA Asks UNHRC To Protect Peaceful Protesters:
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has asked the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva Switzerland and the United Nations Secretary General in
Poverty, Professors, and Policy
By Lasisi Olagunju There was a time in this country when professors earned more than federal permanent secretaries. That was before Nigeria happened to itself.
Hail to the (new) Chief Justice
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When he died at 80 in June 2008, Lamidi Aribiyi Adedibu was one of the best known political godfathers of his
The Wayo Imprisonment of Bobrisky
Festus Adedayo On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretary bird, has remained with Nigeria ever
Soludo Commiserates Akwa Ibom Governor Eno on Loss of Wife
The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has expressed his deep condolences to Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State on the sudden
*Dedication Despite Distraction! Vol. 3*
(Sources of Distraction) 1. SELF: The most dangerous and most difficult source of distraction is when someone becomes a nuisance to himself/ herself. Being unreasonably
October Surprise in American Presidential Elections
By Farooq A. Kperogi Several faithful readers of this column who have followed it from the mid-2000s in the Weekly Trust have asked me to
Drug Barons Don’t Need Fines
By Emmanuel Onwubiko Global counter-narcotics efforts are only successful depending on how far these agencies domiciled in the different Member Nations of the International community
