COLUMNS

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 Tamuno Igbikiberebima is an unlikely star in an action movie. He is a lawyer employed with Nigeria’s national hydro-carbons monopoly. On 17…

By Mike Ozekhome SAN Introduction Ethnic conflict is an issue that, particularly during the last few decades or so, has crept to the forefront of international political debate. Issues that raise the most dust are those regarded essential for the existence and the validity…

By Cheif Mike Ozekhome SAN Oladapo Daniel Oyebanji,aka Dbanj, has been released on administrative bail to me, his lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, after the ICPC investigated and found nothing incriminating against him. This is after having detained him illegally and unconstitutionally in…

By Farooq Kperogi Ovation publisher Chief Dele Momodu popularized the expression “owners of Nigeria” to denote a coterie of power brokers and traffickers of influence who habitually sit in conclave to teleguide the choice of political leaders, particularly presidents, and to whom everyday…

By Muiz Banire SAN In the edition of this column published in these newspapers of the 8th day of July, 2021 (Issues in death of local government in Nigeria https://www.sunnewsonline.com/issues-in-death-of-local-government-in-nigeria/ ), I x-rayed the challenges confronting the local government administration in Nigeria, the…

By Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi, SAN, FCIArb. (UK). INTRODUCTION On Wednesday, 10th October, 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Nigeria Start-up Act into law. On the same day, the news was announced via a tweet by Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami. He…

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN In this concluding section of the paper delivered at the 1st Stakeholders’ Summit organized by the Office of the Surveyor-General of Lagos State, I took on practical issues relating to boundaries and titles. The work of the surveyor in helping…

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Politics in Nigeria is largely of the transhumant variety. It is not defined by any big ideas. With the exception of perhaps the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politicians have been  largely devoid of clear ideological moorings. Freed as…

By Mike Ozekhome SAN Introduction Ethnic conflicts and Nigeria Nigeria is befuddled with grave ethnic conflicts. This deprives her of the much needed National Unity. No Nation can ever develop along those fundamental fault lines of ethnic disharmony. National unity is thereby endangered. National unity…

By Farooq Kperogi First Lady Aisha Buhari allegedly ordered the arrest and arraignment of a Federal University Dutse undergraduate by the name of Aminu Mohammed Adamu because he tweeted that Aisha had literally grown fat on the sweat of poor people. In doing…