By Femi Adesina

The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).

By Ezeh Jude O.

Almost all our past leaders on khaki do evoke some sort of situational irony each time they discuss burning national issues from their respective retirement homes. They suddenly become 'omniscient,' proffering solutions to all the problems facing us as a country, (even though their missteps in office visited most of these misfortunes upon us), and they would want their predecessors to heed their advice and fix them with magic wands.

By Femi Adesina

Former Governor of Anambra State and running mate to Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, flew into the eye of the storm some days ago, when he said on the breakfast show of a television station that the Nigerian economy couldn’t be driven on infrastructure development.

By Ben Gabriel

The uproar surrounding the arrest and detention of 3 Israeli filmmakers in Nigeria by the Department of State Services is unnecessary and misconceived. The desperate move exhibited by the trio in hastily releasing a video to paint the country and the intelligence agency in bad light further justifies an innate motive to cast aspersions.

By Chidi Omeje

Something is happening in the northeast. The counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations which the Nigerian military is prosecuting in that region is gathering steam and the steam is obviously becoming too hot for the adversary. In what appears to be an anti-climax in their bloody campaign, Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have been boxed into a cul-de-sac, courtesy of the unrelenting offensive operations of the Nigerian troops; a predictable fate that offers the notoriously vicious terror group only one option: waving of the olive branch! And olive branch they have been frantically waving of late, the bloodied terrorists.

By Dr Sylvester Onyegbu

A nation or society can live with an incompetent government, said Othman Dan Fodio, but not with injustice as a way of life. Courts are called temples of justice the world over.

By Ezeh Jude Ogechi

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is a Latin adage for "Who watches the watchmen?" This phrase opens the way for our discourse today as we tend to look at the other side of the now-suspended DCP Abba Kyari's current ordeal.

By Jude Ezeh Ogechukwu

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. -Ivan Illich

By Ezeh Jude Ogechukwu

It was the 28th American president, Woodrow Wilson, who, having seen the rots in governmental hierarchies of his time, exclaimed: "A government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."

By Joseph K. Umezinwa

Even non-legal practitioners know that a state high court cannot give a consequential order to a federal agency like the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Any serious action which involves a federal agency must go to the Federal High Court, not State High Court.

By Victor Afam Ogene

John Lennon, the famous British singer, of The Beatles fame, must have foreseen the future when many years ago, he penned down the immutable lines: "There's nowhere you can be, that isn't where you're meant to be."

By Ezeh Jude Ogechi

The social media seems to have caught and brought a new victim to its 'sacred' altar in Distinguished Senator James Manager of Delta South senatorial district. A picture of him, kneeling before former governor James Onanefe Ibori has virally circulated. And as usual, before the libation is poured, the victim is charged to the court of public opinion, where sentiments and emotions wield the gavel. Thus, his case has been adjudicated upon in the last five days.