Opinion

President Muhammadu Buhari has been getting raps for asserting that his government would continue to place the nation’s security and national interests above the rule of law. He reportedly argued that the individual rights of suspected offenders would not...

That Buhari's Failed APC Federal Government has dragged the country 30 years backwards cannot be controverted. Even officials of the Buhari administration cannot point to a reasonable project, initiated and completed by this non-performing administration. However, the most worrisome aspect...

When former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, a highly respected politician from Cross River State, was appointed the Chairman Governing Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, there was no doubt in the minds of many observers that...

Atheists in Kenya have proposed to their government to declare a national holiday for non-believers in the country. This request has made local and international headlines. It has sparked debates and discussions on the possibility and desirability of an...

Since the beginning of Nigeria's fourth republic in 1999, the present administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by President Muhammadu Buhari is unarguably the worst. The failure of the incumbent administration to live up to expectations, within...

On Saturday, August 18, 2018, I set out on a drive to Grand Square in the Central Business District of Abuja for shopping.  I drove past the front of Sky Memorial Plaza that shares a fence with the national headquarters...

It is unfortunate that the most important statement made so far at the on-going Annual Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, an outright derogation of the supremacy of the rule of law, has not yet generated any coherent response...

Merit, taken objectively, is 'something earned, something owed to a person. Taken subjectively, merit is the right of a person to his earning and is of two types- condign and congruous merits. While condign merit deals with strict justice...

Did we just read that president Muhammadu Buhari told lawyers that if you put national security side by side with the rule of law, that national security comes first? This is an unmitigated assault on constitutional democracy which must not...

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." –Potter Stewart. There is no gain saying that the legal ember stoked by Engineer Olusegun Oni against Dr. John Kayode Fayemi...