Emmanuel Okogba

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has flagged off the distribution of relief materials to over 60,000 households effected by the 2022 flood disaster in Benue state.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Tuesday blasted as "insufficient" the apology given by Spain's football federation chief for kissing star player Jennifer Hermoso on the lips after Spain won the Women's World Cup.

A Coalition of Borno Youths who applied for recruitment with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) since May 2023 have called on Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno and the National Assembly members from the state to come to their help and allow justice to prevail.

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Monday 21st August swore into office 45 ministers after an eleventh hour reassignment of portfolios to four of them. Gboyega Oyetola of the Ministry of Transport, Abubakar Momoh of the Ministry of Youth and Bunmi Tunji-Ojo of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy were respectively reassigned to the Ministry of […]

I DO not know Bosun Tijani, the new Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, who, along with his colleagues, was sworn in on Monday. But I can see the picture of a young man standing before some dodos and dinosaurs in the National Assembly, who dredged up his past to invalidate his opportunity of […]

By LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU IT is a feeling of déjà vu, coming rather from a place of fluffy political calculations than a plausible, defensible legal poise with some precision and exactitude. Call it a hogwash or a display of some irascible thoughts, you won’t be mistaken. But whichever way, it is intrinsically fuelled up by ego. […]

I HAVE just published a book on Amazon titled: Buhari: Tinubu – How They Snatched and Shared Power. It has not yet been formally unveiled, but it will be, very soon. It is an analytical reportage and documentation of the politics and intrigues (which spanned over 30 years) that produced the dethronement of the Peoples […]

I SAW a video last week showing a group of women and children holding virtually blank placards shouting ,’Tinubu, yunwa!’. ‘Yunwa’ is the word for hunger in the Hausa language. There were also interviews with some of the women in the marching crowd, with most of them saying they have nothing to eat, no heads […]

NIGERIANS received with mixed feelings the apportioning of portfolios to President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet nominees. Some of the appointments were well-received because of the track records of those entrusted with vital posts. For instance, the appointment of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, can revive the fortunes of […]

WAY FORWARD: In concluding edition, I promised to examine the system of appointment of Judges in some developed countries. Today, I start with the examination of appointment of Judges in Canada CANADA: Canada has a level of judicial independence entrenched in its constitution, awarding superior court justices various guarantees to independence under sections 96 to […]