One of the candidates contesting for the president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chukwuka Ikwuazom, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on Saturday, withdrew while the election was still going on online. In a statement, Ikwuazom alleged that the electoral process was compromised and manipulated. The statement reads: “It is with a heavy heart…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman In the sun-scorched streets of most state capitals in the North, young boys weave through traffic, balancing trays of wares on their heads or in their hands. Their faces glisten with sweat beneath an unforgiving sky. Young girls haul water for the tenth time that day, their school uniforms neatly folded…
Another five set of the abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Kaduna, are said to have been released. The first five were released on Monday, bringing the total number of those released by the bandits to 10 while 29 are still in captivity. On March 11, bandits invaded the school located along…
By Shu’aibu Usman Leman The nomination of a deceased Nigerian, the late Senator Adamu Talba, as an ambassador, is not a routine administrative oversight that can be brushed aside with bureaucratic excuses. It is a glaring indictment of a system that has grown disturbingly casual with power and careless with consequence. When governance descends to…
Elder statesman and prominent Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, is dead. Clark, a former federal commissioner for information died at 97. In a statement, the Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta state, said the ex-senator died on Monday, February 17. The statement read, “The Clark-Fuludu Bekederemo family of Kiagbodo Town, Delta State, wishes to…
By Callistus Agwaza in Jalingo The Taraba Tiv Youth Development Forum (TTYDF) has said that the Tiv people are not settlers but part of the indigenous ethnic groups in the state. In a statement in Jalingo, President of the forum, Torkuma Moses dismissed insinuations by the Jukun Youth and Cultural Development Association (JYCDA) that the…
