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International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day, is celebrated on May 1 every year to honour the working class across the world. As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to celebrate the 2023 International Workers‘ Day, here are seven facts to know about the day set aside to...

By Sylvester Udemezue I start by admitting that Douglas Ogbankwa, Esq had displayed gross negligence or ignorance when upon his completion of the process of changing his name from “Douglas Onyebuchi Aguguom” to “Douglas Onyebuchi Ogbankwa”, he failed to send the necessary notification/documents to the Supreme Court of Nigeria. This...

(Lessons From Ray Charles). If you were blind from the age of 6 when you were still innocent and hadn’t understood what sex was, would you still be able to cheat and keep multiple sex partners as a man? I will answer that question in a jiffy. When we say...

Laity Council The Laity Council is the coming together of the leaders of the societies and organizations of the lay faithful. In order to fulfill her mission of the renewal of the temporal order, there is need to bring the various lay groups (CWO, CMO, CYON etc.) under the umbrella...

By Sani Usman Kukasheka In the next few days, the Nigerian Army Chief, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, will clock two years in office. Recall that he was appointed after the unfortunate plane crash that claimed the lives of erstwhile Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and some of...

By Becky Roach Though St. Benedict was born in 480 A.D., he is certainly a Saint for our times. He was a man of strength, conviction, and courage. Although he desired to live a life of solitude by choosing the life of a hermit and living in a cave, when...

By Sylvester Udemezue* (a) An election result shall only be collated if the Collation Officer ascertains that the number of accredited voters agrees with the number recorded in the BVAS and votes scored by Political Parties on the result sheet is correct and agrees with the result electronically transmitted or...

By Sylvester Udemezue The origin of the doctrine of “inherent jurisdiction/powers” dates back to 1840, when Baron Alderson declared in the English case of Cocker v. Tempest (1841) 7 M & W 502, 503-504 that, “the power of each court over its own processes is unlimited; it is a power...

She wrote: “Go there and toast him yourself.Women nowadays snatch married man from their wives…there is nothing wrong whosoever snatching a single man to yourself. Ladies sit down clocking 30, 40 and going over 50 while waiting for a man to come and ask them out or ask them for...

By Sylvester Udemezue MEMORY VERSES: INEC(A). “It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens: upon the same principle, if it is advantageous to place the supreme power in some particular persons, they should be appointed to be only guardians, and the servants of the...