Author: Martins Oloja

THIS is a fitting tribute to a significant lawyer, an original inhabitant of Abuja who fought and conquered even President Muhammadu Buhari in Court and got justice for his people on human rights. He joined his ancestors at 54 last week after battling that evil deposit called sickle cell anemia. I am sure when Musa Baba-Panya gets to his Creator, he will report Buhari to Him and his bitter complaint will be: My Father, my Father, what are you going to do to that man, our leader, Buhari who has since January 15, 2018 failed to abide by a Court…

AS we await results of the gubernatorial and state assembly elections results despite disruptions and eruptions triggered by political desperados at the weekend, there two equally weightier matters of governance and the law we should reflect upon in the context of nation building and national development we urgently need. I think the two current issues: president’s assent to 16 items of the constitution amendment bill and a promise by the president-elect that he would like raise the bar of governance from stereotypical ‘government of national unity’ to the ‘government of national competence’ should be examined. But for the controversies that…

THERE is an urgent need for the president’s men, officers and officials of the federal government to remind our President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces that he still has a responsibility to lead Nigeria till the early hours of May 29, 2023. These big men who are paid to assist the president should tell him first that the people of Nigeria are suffering and not smiling this time because they still cannot access their monies in the banks. Last Wednesday, a major bank in Nigeria called on customers to come to any of the branches nearest to them to…