Days after Distinguished Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa openly and brazenly boasted of how he influenced court judgments in favour of himself and in favour of his friends and colleague using his wife who was the president of the court of appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, the senator is yet to be invited to substantiate his claims and the retired justice is yet to be invited by the National Judicial Council to deny or support her husband’s claim.
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At the valedictory session of the 9th Senate last Saturday, a ‘Most distinguished’ (as they address themselves) told his colleagues that many owe their stay in the green chambers to the ‘benevolence’ of his wife, a retired judicial officer. Despite the best efforts of the (now former) Senate President Ahmad Lawan to apply the ‘off the mic’ principle to gag the father-confessor, the damage to the reputation of the Nigerian judiciary was already done.
Two things will define Tinubu’s Presidency as a success or failure: What he does to insecurity and what he does to corruption. Why? Because these maladies are the two burning issues in the country today which if not taken down will take down the country or perhaps better put, will burn down the nation. I see Ribadu as the fire-fighter that will put out the fire of these burning issues. I am moved to do this write up by an article I saw online written by one Ismail Abdullahi from Kano.
One of the most difficult challenges I have had to endure is balancing my professional responsibilities with the needs of my baby, particularly when it comes to breastfeeding.
“Mata adon gari” is a phrase I and a thousand other northern Nigerian ladies have grown to become attuned to. When loosely interpreted, this phrase translates to “women are the beauty of society”.
I have always held the notion that I wasn’t a people person. I hated socializing as much as I loved solitude.
It is exactly three decades today that Nigerians went to the polls to exercise their inalienable right to elect a President of their choice to lead the transition from military dictatorship to a representative government of the people.
June 12 holds a profound significance in Nigeria’s socio-political development as it symbolises the struggle for democracy and the need for citizen participation. On June 12, 1993, Nigerians across ethnoreligious and sociocultural divides trooped out to exercise their civic duty of electing the president of their country. Although the election was later annulled in the most controversial of circumstances, it goes down in the annals of Nigerian history as the freest and fairest conducted in the nation’s quest for stable democracy. The election has also continued to serve as a reference point in organising credible elections under challenging circumstances. In a symbolic gesture, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration on June 6, 2018, declared June 12 as the new Democracy Day, replacing May 29.
O Godwin, with your cheap green tie, fading suit and wry smile you poked your greedy, grubby little fingers into Nigeria’s eye
“Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men.” This is what the Bible says in Proverbs 22:29 (New king James Version) concerning men or women who are excellent planners, who produce excellent work, who push through obstacles, who are self-motivated and who show persistent and hardworking effort in doing something. The King James Version uses the word diligence in that chapter. Read it: “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” The word diligence, aptly regarded as a combination of both hard work and patience, equally, perfectly approximates the major character trait of Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, the pacesetting Group Chairman of Odu’a Investment Company Limited (OICL).