By Sunday Isuwa A disagreement has emerged between southern and northern senators on the push for Nigeria to revert to a regional governance model. This unfolded during a two-day retreat focused on amending the 1999 constitution, organised by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review in partnership with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) in…
By Law Mefor The Need For Judicial Pronouncement on the Alleged Veto/OVERRIDING of GOVERNOR FUBARA’S Assent to Four Bills Albert Venn Dicey, (popularly known as A. V. Dicey) taught law at the University of Oxford (1882-1909), he is credited as the proponent of the RULE OF LAW. One of the cardinal tenents of the Rule…
Without adopting and fully implementing the report of the 2014 National Conference, progress in all facets may continue to elude Nigeria, as the document contains the antidote to the political and socio-economic problems confronting the country. This was the consensus of the opinions of political, economic and academic leaders who converged on Lagos during the…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upturned the unanimous decision of the tribunal and affirmed Amobi Godwin Ogah as Reps member representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on February 27, declared Labour Party’s Ogah winner with 11769 votes against former Deputy Chief Whip who was gunning for a fifth…
The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF), comprising Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum, Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and Ohanaeze Ndigbo, rose from an extraordinary meeting, yesterday calling on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency and priority work towards the restructuring of the country and enthrone true federalism as was originally entrenched in…
By Law Mefor With the release of his academic records by Chicago State University (CSU), the identity crisis that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has created for nearly three decades since he started his journey in public life and aspiring for political office is mercifully coming to an end. The papers that have been seen so…
Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu weakened his education privacy rights when he submitted a contentious certificate to run for office in 2022. The judge said the need to confirm the genuineness or otherwise of the certificate Mr Tinubu submitted…
Although the appeal filed by Peter Obi and Labour Party to the Supreme Court against the Judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) is based on fifty-one (51) grounds of appeal, the major complaints they raised against the Judgment are as follows; that: The PEPC was wrong when it struck out the witness statements…
By Law Mefor The authors of the iconic book “Why Nations Fail,” Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, stated that it is the parasitic political and economic classes that are the primary cause of why nations fail. What counts to them is what they get out of the system, not what they put into it. Nigeria…
By Bolanle Olabimtan The court of appeal in Abuja has set aside the judgment of the national and state houses of assembly election tribunal in Asaba. The tribunal had declared Ndudi Elumelu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the 2023 election for Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Delta state. In a judgment on…
