Tinubu and Frank Kokori: A reporter remembers
By FESTUS ADEDAYO (Published by the Sunday Tribune, December 10, 2023) It was 25 years ago; Saturday, October 10, 1998 to be precise. We were all inside the …
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Early History of Lagos, a response to Oba of Benin, by Banji Akintoye
On November 26, 2023, the Oba of Benin ignited a huge controversy about the early history of Lagos. He did so by making the claim that the Edo people of the …
KANO: We don’t need favours, we need justice
By HASSAN SANI TUKUR The month was June, the year was 1215, the place was England and the King was John. Magna Carta, the first official document to limit the …
Oba of Benin, ancestors and Lagos
By LASISI OLAGUNJU (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 4 December, 2023) “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every …
How to stop judicial coups against democracy in Nigeria
By FAROOQ A. KPEROGI Twitter: @farooqkperogi “Second, at least at the presidential level, once someone has been declared the president and is …
KANO GUBER TUSSLE: Between opportunism and legality
By DR. SALEH M. MAINA “The Supreme Court should rise up above being used by the ruling party as tool for imposing themselves on a people that …
The judicial adultery in Kano, by Lasisi Olagunju
“Five days later, the party that lost got a certified true copy (CTC) of the judgement but saw that the decision and orders of the court on the …
A requiem for my mother
By FESTUS ADEDAYO (Published by the Sunday Tribune, November 26, 2023) Last Friday, November 24, around 1pm, I was getting pleased with myself for having …
Mr President, please save our judiciary, our democracy, our country, by Hassan Gimba
“A corrupt judge is more harmful to the society than a man who runs amok with a dagger in a crowded street. While the man with the dagger can be restrained …
Open letter to FCT Minister, Chief Nyesom Wike
LDear Hon minister, First, a disclosure. You may not know me but we have met on two occasions in the house of our mutual respected Oga, first as a minister of …