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By Dr. Muiz Banire SAN This  intervention is necessitated by two developing events in our polity. The first   is the ongoing appropriation process which makes provisions for future government expenditures. The second is the recent transition of the leadership of the Nigerian Bar…

By Sylvester Udemezue (1). The recent declaration by the Government of Ogun State of Nigeria expressing its commitment to enforcing death penalty for heinous crimes, including ritual killings, kidnapping, and cultism, has reopened the discussions on continued propriety and morality of imposing…

By Farooq A. Kperogi Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II on Wednesday became an involuntary, if narcissistic and self-important, humorist who embodied the age-old wisecrack that says when you put a crown on a clown, he turns the palace into a circus and…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Less than a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have been mistaken for a committee meeting of leaders of the African Union. One of…

By Femi Falana, SAN Comprehensive Approach to Reform” delivered at the Lagos State Government Justice Sector Summit held on May 28, 2024. The Learned Senior Advocate suggests ways and means in which administration of criminal justice in Lagos can be improved, also with simple…

By Kenneth Okonkwo National minimum wage is the lowest amount or wage that employers can legally pay employees in a particular country by collective agreement or an individual contract. Collective agreement is the product of collective bargaining, which is, the process in which…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu In a country and a season in which candour is not always seen as a virtue, those who make it the currency of their daily lives are either idolized, endangered or idolized into endangerment. On the Nigerian streets, a…

By Ken Ugbechie Among the class of President Bola Tinubu’s ministers and appointees, Dele Alake, the minister of Solid Minerals, stands out, holding up a redemptive banner. Dr. Alake is not an engineer. He’s a broad-spectrum journalist and administrator, having crisscrossed the labyrinthine…

The recent article, "Tinubu's Minister In Corruption Mess, Budgets N200B for Project Executed by Buhari’s Govt," attempts to sensationalize with gross misinformation, exposing the writer's ignorance about Nigeria's geo-data environment and mineral exploration needs. Consequently, it is imperative to bring some clarity into…