Smoking Weed & Sipping Hennessy: King Kong “Thinz”
Bashir is the lean fulani type from Bauchi. Fine boy, tall, dark with eyes like a chic. He is very shy and will naturally sit alone or mind his business during discussions, drink outs, parties and all. But he was my closest friend then. We went for a competition (he plays chess and soccer.) Then […]
NBA President, SANs Kick As Northern Lawyers Form Parallel NBA
The newly sworn-in President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata; and some other Senior Advocates of Nigeria have condemned the move by northern lawyers in the country to form a parallel association. Some lawyers of northern extraction had, on Friday, formed the ‘New NBA,’ following the recent controversy that trailed the withdrawal of an […]
Ghana defends $1m traders’ levy, faults Nigeria’s border closure, others
The Ghanaian Minister of Information, Kojo Nkrumah, on Sunday, defended the $1 million trade levy and other regulations imposed on Nigerian traders in Ghana, noting that Nigeria had equally issued executive orders preventing foreigners from getting jobs which Nigerians can do. The minister said it was astonishing that Ghanaian laws could be described as outrageous, […]
NBA President, SANs Kick As Northern Lawyers Form Parallel NBA
Some lawyers of northern extraction had, on Friday, formed the ‘New NBA,’ following the recent controversy that trailed the withdrawal of an invite to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, as a guest speaker at the association’s conference. The breakaway group, in a statement by two lawyers, Nuhu Ibrahim (Convener 1) and Abdulbasit Suleiman (Convener […]
Blasphemy: Ganduje to sign singer’s death sentence
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Thursday endorsed death sentence passed on 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif-Aminu by upper Shari’a court for blaspheming. Sharif-Aminu, a resident of Sharifai quarters in Kano municipal, was sued for “insulting religious creed, contrary to section 382 (b) of Kano State Shari’a Penal Code Law 2000.” According to the litigation, he […]
Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion
Jonathan Ponciano The world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, is wealthier than he’s ever been. Early Wednesday he crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking net worths: With Amazon stock edging up 2% as of Wednesday afternoon, Bezos’ net worth is up by $4.9 billion, making the 56-year-old the world’s first-ever person […]
Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Facebook Accounts Spread ISIS And Hurras al-Din Propaganda
(New York, N.Y.) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers located Facebook accounts used to spread ISIS and Hurras al-Din video propaganda that was viewed hundreds of times. Also, a notorious neo-Nazi […]
DEPLATFORMING MALLAM NASIR EL RUFAI: A BAD PRECEDENT BY NBA
It is no longer news that the national body of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has deplatformed Mallam Nasir Ahmad El Rufai, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, from speaking in its first ever virtual Annual Conference. What is of concern now is the sort of precedent NBA has set for posterity. As it is […]
NBA Conference: Elrufai is at war with Elrufai – Omatseye
THIS is not the time to hold grudges against Malam Nasir El-Rufai. It is not the time to say he, like Napoleon, suffers a small man’s syndrome, or that he pulled down the homes of rivals. It is not the time to say his mind has not grown above his height, and that he does […]
Request To Withdraw The Offer To El-Rufai: The Letter To NBA
𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗟-𝗥𝗨𝗙𝗔𝗜 18 August, 2020Prof Koyinsola Ajayi, SANChair, Technical Committee on Conference Planning (TCCP)Nigerian Bar Association, NBACBD, Abuja REQUEST TO WITHDRAW THE OFFER OF PLATFORM AT THE 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION TO MALLAM NASIR EL-RUFAI We are a collective of lawyers enrolled to practice in Nigeria and […]