This is the second part of our treatise on the rule of law that started last week. The rule of law is about the creation of laws, their enforcement so that no one – including the most highly placed citizen – is above the law. When one looks at how organised countries have control over their affairs, one sees how the weakest as well as the strongest face the same law and get the same justice when they get caught with a misdemeanour. In an ideal country, those who are at the helm of affairs are ever mindful of doing…
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One of the questions posed last week was on the historical perspective of SAA-Nigeria. Originally, Nigeria was not a target of SAA as the country was not qualified because of its potential greatness. However, the then retired General and former Head of State, Olusegun Obasanjo was in the Board of SAA and thus, convinced his colleagues in the Board to come to Nigeria after the closure of Sudan’s office. That marked the birth of SAA-Nigeria in 1992. Since then, SAA-Nigeria has been painstakingly and meticulously built over the last three decades. Dr. Jose Valencia, a Mexican crop breeder was the…
By Yusuf Idris Gusau Away from the daily singsong over bandit activities which has beclouded every stray of light from Zamfara for over a decade, came the message of hope at the Nigeria Business and Investment Forum of the Dubai Expo 2020, which held in the United Arab Emirate’s most burgeoning country, on December 4th, 2021. And the bearer of such a cheering news is no other person but the Shattiman Sokoto himself, Bello Mohammed, the governor of Zamfara State. The Dubai Expo is one of the world’s most significant trades and investments exhibitions. The event slated for 2020 was…
The U.S. government on Friday imposed sanctions on Ali Darassa, a militia leader in Central African Republic (CAR) whose forces it accused of murder, torture, rape and kidnapping. Darassa has been designated for abuses stemming from his leadership of the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC) militia group, said the U.S. Treasury Department. “UPC’s militants have killed, tortured, raped, and displaced thousands of people since 2014,” it said in a statement. Darassa has been linked to a November 2018 attack on a displacement camp in Alindao that left 112 villagers dead, including 19 children. “Under Darassa’s leadership,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit to provide concrete support to help defeat terrorism and insurgency in Africa. Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement said the Nigerian leader made the call at the third edition of the Summit held in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday. According to the president, the Boko Haram terrorist group, though fragmented by internal strife and degraded by Nigeria’s defense forces, is still active and preying on soft targets. He expressed delight that the Summit convened by President Recep Erdogan of Turkey has given due…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Tin Can Island command on Saturday confirmed the interception of a container suspected to be laden with arms and ammunition. The spokesperson of the command, Uche Ejesieme confirmed the interception in a statement. According to him, the container was intercepted on Friday in one of the port’s terminals during routine examination. “Following this development, the command intimated the terminal operators and requested that the suspected container be transferred to our enforcement unit for 100 per cent examination. “This suffices that the information is still sketchy but we do hope that comprehensive information will be availed…
Akande’s biography is a deliberate falsehood, a biography of lies used as legitimate means to achieve political ends for Tinubu 2023 presidential ambition. It’s a biography of bullshit! Bisi Akande’s My Participations reads as if it was dictated, not written. All the way through, we hear Bola Tinubu’s voice. It’s like being cornered in a bees’ hive and harangued endlessly by his political foes. A biography of lies. I abandoned the book after few pages! I won’t waste my precious time talking about the book. In his remarks during the launching of the book, Akande has the shameless audacity, reckless…
Against plans by the federal government to remove fuel subsidy, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has resolved to hold a national protest on February 1, 2022. This is contained in a communiqué signed and issued by NLC President, Ayuba Wabba and General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, after the NEC meeting in Abuja on Friday. The NLC said before the national protest, the labour union would hold protest rallies in all the 36 states of the country on January 27, against the subsidy removal. The communique noted that the removal of the fuel subsidy would expose…
The Debt Management Office (DMO) has clarified that loans from China to Nigeria, which presently stood at $3.59 billion, constitutes only 9.4 per cent of the country’s total foreign debt stock of $37.9 billion. The Director-General of DMO, Patience Oniha who made this known in an interview in Abuja on Saturday, also clarified that the loans were largely concessional, as no national asset was tagged as collateral. In recent times, both the social and mainstream media have been awash with news about some African countries, including Nigeria, facing the threat of losing some critical national assets to the Asian country…
By Aderogba George Faster Project of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), an NGO, has advocated the adoption of HIV self-testing kit as an effective strategy in scaling-up HIV testing for epidemic response. The Project Director, CRS, Dr Chizoba Mbanefo, said this at a one-day symposium on HIV Self- testing Programming (HIVST) in Nigeria, organised by Faster Project of the catholic Relief Services (CRS). The theme of the event is tagged “HIVST Programming in Nigeria- The Journey so far”. She said that the two year programme from 2019 to 2021 was designed to accelerate progress in paediatric HIV diagnosis and treatment…