A court of appeal in Nigeria has declared unconstitutional a law requiring every organiser of a rally to have a special police permit. The law, a residue of colonial rule, was challenged after police used tear gas to...
The election petitions tribunal sitting in Enugu on Tuesday nullified the election of the Senate Committee Chairman on Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, representing Enugu North in the upper chamber. The tribunal also sacked...
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday affirmed the inalienable right of Nigerians and asscociations to hold rallies without police permit. The court upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court which had, in June 2005,...
Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Monday invaded Aleibiri community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and kidnapped the aged father of the state deputy governor, Chief Simeon Ebebi. The incident,...
The National Economic Council, yesterday, cancelled the contract awarded by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo for the construction of Primary Health Care Centres in the 774 local governments in...
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised the Federal Government not to leave the planned reopening of all unresolved political murder cases in the country in the hands of the police alone. Instead, he said an...
By Prince Charles DicksonJust as the year ends many thing comes to my mind but top of the list is the question of Nigeria, a nation so blessed yet in too much peril, that one begins to wonder what really is the...
By Wole SoyinkaLet us begin by demystifying constitutionalism. Even the so-called brutes have a constitution; it is unwritten, but it is very clearly understood among the species. Yet, even the earlier part of that...
By Uche NworahI attended Okechi Precious Osuala and his lovely bride Cordelia Ogbu’s wedding in Abuja recently. The groom, a childhood friend and fellow student at the University of Uyo (Uniuyo) also invited some...
By Prince Charles DicksonThere is this African Riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have. The riddle asks, if you are in a dream and you encounter a Lion about to attack you, what do...
By Roy ChikwemSince the introduction of democracy in Nigeria, Nigerians have experienced first-hand massive election rigging, hooliganism and violence. The introduction of democracy in Nigeria has also produced the...
Six months ago, on a sweltering parade ground in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, Umaru Yar'Adua was sworn in as the president of Africa's most populous nation - the first time one civilian leader had taken over...