Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, has criticised the Federal Government’s plan to engage 4,000 social media influencers to showcase infrastructure projects delivered under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Odinkalu, in a post on X on Thursday, said the proposed influencer network could instead be used to address questions surrounding…
“The division between the two professions was well recognised by the end of the 16th century and by the end of the 17th was quite firm….While the solicitor spends much of his time trying to keep his clients out of court, there inevitably comes a time when he needs the services of what the Americans…
Widespread outrage has followed a recent warning by Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, directed at 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, cautioning him not to enter the state without prior approval from the state government. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), human rights lawyer and former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights…
Somewhere in Ekiti State on International Human Rights Day 2024, the very rights consecrated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will face the Guillotine with Dele Farotimi strung up as the sacrifice. Those who think this vindication may yet live to rue their affliction with terminal hubris. Paul Anyebe was a judge of the…
