By Owei Lakemfa JANUARY 8, 1959. CUBAN youths led by a 34-year-old bearded lawyer, Fidel Castro, drove in a convoy into Havana. A week earlier, the dictatorship of Batista, propped by bayonets, had collapsed. Fidel, the leader of the triumphant youths, then began his drive from his Santiago base at the head of a convoy […]
By Paul Ejime DANGOTE PETROLEUM Refinery has clarified its position on the sacking of an undisclosed number of Nigerian workers, mainly truck drivers who reportedly joined national industrial unions. “Over 3,000 Nigerians continue to work actively in our Petroleum Refinery, at present. Only a very small number of staff were affected, as...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the Wednesday, 24 September 2025 edition of the New Telegraph newspaper). “BETWEEN THE Rivers state sole administrator who just completed his six-month state of emergency rule over the oil-rich state and the state’s House of Assembly members just resuming their own functi...
By Robert Egbe IN MAY this year, I received an unusual mail. It was an invitation from a public relations firm in South Africa, one I had never heard of, to attend a program in Cape Town. They would provide logistical arrangements. All that was required, was that I write and publish at least two […]
By Emeka Monye AS I reflect on my high school days, the figure of the principal looms large in my memory. The principal was an all-powerful entity, revered and feared in equal measure. Students would instinctively straighten their posture and comport themselves whenever the principal strolled along the veranda, eyes scanning for any signs of ...
By Paul Ejime DAVID AGUELE, a Nigerian citizen, and the Centre for Community Law (CfCL), an NGO, have jointly sued the President of the ECOWAS Commission and the Council of Ministers at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (CCJ), challenging the regional organisation’s decision to retain in its employment staff members from Mali, Burkina Fas...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The judiciary have a wide scope for making political decisions.” J.A.G. Griffiths, “Constitutional and Administrative Law’ in Peter Archer & Andrew Martin (Eds), More Law Reform Now, 55 (1983) THE JUDGMENT of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on 19 January 2006 concerning the state of emergency in Plateau State came d...
By JKNewsMedia IMAGES CIRCULATING online falsely claiming to show Peter Obi in meetings with United States (US) President Donald Trump have been dismissed as fabricated. In a statement posted on his X handle, Mr Obi stressed that the photos currently being shared on social media are fake and doctored, describing the accompanying stories as en...
By Owei Lakemfa YUSUF BALA Usman, noted historian, fiery politician, co-author of the 1977 Minority Report of the Nigerian Constitution and prolific writer, departed on September 24, 2005. Given his role in the Nigerian life, intellectual prowess and mentorship of generations, were he alive, what would he be telling Nigerians? Those who were ...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 21 September, 2025). “LAST THURSDAY was a day of missed feelings for me – day of joy and day of mourning!” “The conditionalities imposed on Siminalayi Fubara to bring him back as governor were more crippling than […]...
