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Friday, September 22, 2017

10 SALIENT FEATURES OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2011

Nigeria’s new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan on the 28 May 2011, contains far reaching provisions capable of transforming the clandestine system of governance that has, until now, been the norm of Nigeria’s public institutions. The underlying philosophy of the Act is that public officers are custodians of a public trust on behalf of a population who have a right to know what they do. In particular, the FOIA promises to remove the aura of mystery and exclusion with which public servants clothe the ordinary operations of government and public institutions and manage public records and information. This brief article highlights the ten most significant provisions of the FOIA

MANY IGBOS ARE COWARDS: TOO HASTY JUDGEMENT ON YORUBAS- RENO OMOKRI

Reno Omokri says Yorubas are a dauntless people

- Omokri says for long, many Igbos have looked at the Yorubas as cowards

Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie

Reported at page 7 of the Vanguard newspaper of 19th September, 2017, Bishop Okogie has this to say on Biafra agitation:

The president of the United Nation’s General Assembly, Your Excellencies, Heads of States and governments, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Between S.L. Akintola and Obafemi Awolowo, By Femi Fani-Kayode

Obafemi Awolowo and S. L. Akintola

In an interview with the Punch newspaper on 30th November 2013, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo, a great nationalist, a two-time former Commissioner of Education of the old Western Region, a former Governor of Oyo state, one of our few remaining elderstatesman and a man that played a prominent role in the politics of both the First and Second republics said the following-

THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF AN AVERAGE IGBO PERSON- Natha-Alade

Richarmond O. Natha-Alad

Igbo people are blessed. They are not just blessed but blessed as other tribes of this nation and Africa in general.

As hardworking and determined an average Igbo man is, the inability to manage this blessing had made it a curse on many of our men from the Igbo extraction of Nigeria; just as the nation's crude oil that should ordinarily be a blessing to Nigerians had turned a curse; same oil had caused us divisions along ethnic, political, economic and religious lines and sentiments.

HOW IBADAN PROFESSOR SETS SAN BROTHER ABLAZED OVER PROPERTY

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria 64-year old Yinka Abiose, popularly called Mr. Boyd was killed by his elder brother, a professor of Dentistry, in Ibadan (Oyo state) over family property.

Alfred and Wilbert Peterson

A set of 54-year-old conjoined twins from Michigan are facing each other in court, as one of the siblings is contesting his brother’s right to engage in sexual acts without his consent.

AS the Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, continues to stoutly oppose the coronation of 21 new kings in Ibadanland, the monarch has said he would not bless the new Obas who could not wait for their turn to become Olubadan but hurriedly presented themselves for coronation as inferior Obas by the Oyo State Government.

Africa's biggest hatchery and feed mill constructed by Olam Grains at the cost of over 150 million dollars was inaugurated in Kaduna by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, will on September 18, swear in 30 legal practitioners that were recently conferred with the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs.

Trouble seems to be looming for Senate President, Bukola Saraki as posters calling for his recall have flooded Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

SANs AND CORRUPTION TAINTED BRIEFS

The SANs were accused of blindly accepting “corruption-tainted briefs”, assisting accused persons in hiding their loot, and irresponsibly using technical manoeuvres to defeat the system.” But as if to prove Mr. Magu right, an

WHY COURT UPHELD DINO MALAYE'S RECALL PROCESS

Sen Dino Malaye (in middle)

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has given the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), permission to proceed with its planned recall of Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi).