Opinion

For more than two decades, the Nigerian federation has been enmeshed in complex waves of violence and insecurity of multidimensional proportion with multiplier effects on livelihoods and the nation’s economy. While a majority of Nigerian stakeholders fault the 1999 constitutional configuration of the federation as an avatar of deeply entrenched cum systemic injustice, two geopolitical zones (North East and North West) with hegemonic sway see nothing wrong with the status quo. For instance, clauses in the Nigerian constitution that underscore entrenched injustice include inter alia: immunity which engenders impunity and insulates top corrupt government officials from prosecution, the geopolitical imbalance…

By Prince Udensi When Hon. Uko Nkole left the Federal Capital Administration as a town planner in development control, only one thought remained indissoluble in his mind, the urge to contribute his quota towards the development of his immediate constituency, and home state of Abia. Already, his father and patriarch of the Nkole family was a detribalized community leader, who until his demise dedicated greater part of his life towards augmenting humanity, especially at his immediate constituency of Arochukwu/Ohafia in his capacity as a senior manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Leaving trails of quintessential performance at the FCA,…

By Chief Patrick Eholor  Section 121 (3) of the Constitution provides that all monies standing to the credit of the Judiciary shall be paid on the first line charge directly to the Heads of Court, from the consolidated revenue fund. Now what is really is the meaning of money standing to the credit of the Judiciary? The Miriam Webster Dictionary Defines credit as: An an entry on the right-hand side of an account constituting an addition to a revenue, net worth, or liability account. So when ever an additional money is generation by your action or processes that money stands…

The police as the foremost law enforcement agency oftentimes come under fierce attack and destructive criticisms as a result of unprofessional conduct of few persons who have continued to portray the force in a bad light. Most often also, when they deliver incredible milestone in an effort to make the rest of us and our entire family sleep with our eyes close, it faintly make headlines in the newspapers. Irrespective of the angle from where we may view them, the police are the number one law enforcement body and the first point of protection for the civil populace. Have you…

By Chinyemike Torti For veteran media practitioners familiar with the manic depressive, disposition of Smart Adeyemi, the visuals of his bohemian theatrics on the Senate chamber, did not come as surprise. All his career, and in engagements both in private and official capacities, he is always been a manifest poster boy of adult delinquency. He is probably one of the reasons why the Federal government restricted the use of Codeine and Tramadol tablets. Here is a country bumpkin from the backwaters of Iyara Town, in Ijumu Local Government, of Kogi State that cannot be geo-tracked or charted on the GPS…

By Kennedy Onyenma. It is no longer news that Abia State is the third most preferred investment destination in Nigeria. Thanks to the impartial judges at the National Bureau of Statistics( NBS). Abia comes next to Lagos and Abuja with an inflow of 56.1m USD in 2020. The news however is how Abia rose this fast to the top amidst the covid -19 upheavals and other ancillary setbacks that, devastatingly, slapped the state in the face? The answer is straight and point black: Ikpeazu has got some buttons right! His stick-to-itiveness or persistence, in pursuing his set out developmental blueprints,…