We had joined Chief Gani Fawehinmi, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, SAM (Gani) to fondly call his son, Mohammed, Mo.This was the pet name Gani had given to Mohammed. This was even as a young teenager in the early 80s. Mo was 52 when he died. His father, Gani the legend, had died at 71,…
Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Boko Haram: Two Faces of Government Contradictions
Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba rights activist, has declared he will not be intimidated by the recent fresh attempt by the Department of State Services, (DSS) to arrest him. He said any attempt to arrest him on Yoruba land will fail woefully. Nnamdi Kanu, still in DSS custody, is as defiant…
Prof. Auwalu Yadudu’s Scaremongering: Why The NASS Must Ignore Him
I have just read, to my utmost chagrin and dismay, a release authored by Prof. Auwalu Yadudu and currently trending in the social media. Yadudu titled his piece (which apparently represents his memorandum to the NASS Committee on the Review of the Constitution), “AVOID TAKING THE SLIPPERY SLOPE PATH TO CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW”. Although, I have…
The Twitter Ban, Prosecution, More Prisons And Link With JUSUN Strike
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has just ordered the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation to immediately prosecute offenders contravening the Federal Government’s ban on twitter operations in Nigeria. Indeed, he wants the DPP to liaise with the Ministry of Communications and Digital…
President Buhari’s Drums of War and Twitter’s Reaction
The most trending issue of the moment involves Twitter’s deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s threats to some Nigerians whom he described as “many people misbehaving today were too young to remember the deaths and destruction from the civil war”. He then threatened, “those of us who went through the war will treat them in the…
El-Rufai, Why Are You Playing Brother Jero? -An Open Letter to Governor Nasir El-Rufai
INTRODUCTION I know you people in the corridors of power don’t bother about reading or hearing from we lesser mortals. You love listening to yourselves, to fawners, bootleggers, bootlickers, contractors, influence-peddlers and genuflectors. I am not one. Fortunately. But, give me some minutes and read this my humble open letter to you. This is because…
Why Are Some Northern Elite Suddenly Worried By The Southern Governors’ Asaba Declaration?
The sudden unexpected kick by some Northern elite against the patriotic resolutions passed last week at a meeting held in Asaba, Delta State by the 17 Southern Governors of Nigeria is quite worrisome, but definitely uncalled for.The kick is illegal, unconstitutional and even immoral. I have since termed the Asaba resolutions the “ACCORD CONCORDIALE” .The…
Isa Pantami: The Leopard And Its Unchanging Spots
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Mallam Isa Pantami is no ordinary Nigerian. He is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Pantami is also no ordinary Minister. He is charged with the sensitive portfolio of Communications and Digital Economy. Before his ministerial appointment, he had headed the very sensitive and delicate position of Director-General of the National…
Buhari’s Northernisation of Nigeria Police Force
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] I had on February 4, in a widely reported press release, coupled with outing on Channels TV (Politics Today), kicked against the extension of Ex-Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu’s tenure. I had termed it as not only “patently glaringly illegal, unconstitutional”, but also “because he was denying other members of the…
That Failed Kidnap Attempt on Sunday Igboho
[responsivevoice] The act of a combined team of soldiers, DSS and Police, numbering about 40, attempted to arrest and detain Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo Igboho was too much in the form of a kidnap attempt. Igboho was said to have been waylaid along Ibadan/Lagos Expressway whilst on his way to see Pa Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos.…
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