“Crackdown” On Judicial Officers – Separating The Law From Sentiments By Inibehe Effiong The State Security Service (SSS) embarked on an unprecedented “crackdown” on allegedly corrupt judicial officers across the country over the weekend. Among the judicial officers whose houses were searched and thereafter arrested and detained are two Justices of the Supreme Court of…
Away from Body and/or Mind Now if in the last several months you have been away from Nigeria, temporarily vacated your sense of surroundings, or both, would it not be pardonable to wonder what the hullabaloo in the press and the country has been about? Much ado about Salami, you may think. But is it…
Arguments and Contentions You would think that we already have enough problems arrayed against us in Nigeria, but every once in a while, one hears of, or sees, a new problem being conjured up to add to our distress, or an old goblin being invoked to undermine whatever measure of peace that we already possess….
The Politics of Change and a New Nigeria Of those privileged to have visited the UK from Nigeria, many would have made a stop in London. The city is well worth the effort and time required to take in some of its many wonders. From the structures, castles and homes in the old town, to…
A Pax Americana Beginning Annum Domini 2003 At least that is what the Americans would like to have, anyway. Having bulldozed Baghdad and liberated the oil-fields, the Yankees now straddle Iraqi society like an imperious Colossus. Iraqi TV used to be dominated by images and eulogies to Mr Saddam, these days the “popular” fare is…
Follow @NewNigerian This picture puts a perspective on Nigeria that many books may fail to equal. It describes the current state, while also revealing a previous reality that has been superimposed upon by a new anti-reality. Let’s start with the white-ish house; rain washed and suffering from an invasion of moss. In a previous life,…