Nigeria News Forum

  Ask me who's Nigeria's best president ever, and I will gladly tell you Yar’Adua . The man was good. He lived a simple and honest life. Served his home state for 8 years and Nigeria for 2+ years. He did not buy private jets, did not establish a private university, did not build a private estate, did not loot money and stash it in a foreign account, did not build a private radio/tv station, did not build a private hotel/shopping mall, and did not oppress his opponents. He obeyed the rule of law . On assuming office, he publicly declared his assets. He initiated electoral reforms and gave the judiciary a free hand to do its job. In his days, the ruling party lost several states to opposition via court judgments, and the good man kept his cool. He brought peace to the Niger-Delta via amnesty . He created the Ministry of the Niger-Delta and granted scholarships to thousands of former militants in different universities abroad. He was learned, he spoke coherently, and acted resp...

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Fred Agbaje, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari on his recent concern over the delay in the trial of corruption cases. Agbaje told Punch that it was up to the judiciary to redeem itself and change the negative perception raised by the president. The lawyer was reacting to the recent call by President Buhari on the judiciary to support his anti-graft war by ensuring that the criminal cases in court were not delayed but expeditiously concluded. Buhari while speaking at the opening ceremony of an ‘International Workshop on the Judiciary and Fight against Corruption,’ was quoted asking the judiciary to put its house in order, tackle judicial corruption, be impartial and politically neutral, remove causes of delays in adjudication of cases and stop tolerating the dilatory tactics of defence lawyers that prolonged high- profile corruption cases. Speaking on Tuesday against the background of Buhari’s comment, Agbaje said, “It is a serious indictment to say...