The Senate: Ahmad Lawan’s stewardship
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By Hassan A. Nguru
One of the endless discussions on Nigeria’s cyberspace and across the media is; if it is worth it, for Nigeria to maintain upper and lower chambers of the legislature. As a democracy, doing away with the legislature is out of the question.
But the at the centre of these debates is the fact that many tend to assume that, Nigeria can do without the lawmakers. This line of argument is born out of frustration with the system and the many failures of governance. Some of these arguments may have elements of validity, but the bottom line is that, despite everything, the legislature adds value to governance and make the difference, in cases where little or no attention is paid. Some lawmakers may not be living up to expectation but doesn’t mean; the baby should be thrown with the bathwater.
2021 may be year of famine
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By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, CON
PRIOR to colonisation, hunger and famine were alien to most African countries as there was widely-acknowledged food sustenance.
Each household practised one form of farming or the other and consequently, there was enough to feed the family while the excess was exchanged by barter through some other forms of payment. This boom in food production had the effect of boosting the economy and therefore, the concept of begging for alms was totalling unheard of. There was no poverty, famine, or the incidence of begging in Africa. Lord Macaulay, in his address to the British Parliament on February 2, 1835, aptly remarked thus:
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Police arraign man, 24, over alleged theft of N240,000
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The Police in Ogun State on Tuesday arraigned a 24-year-old man, Ndubuisi Emeka, before an Ota Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly stealing N240,000 belonging to his friend.
Emeka, who lives at No. 21 Ifelodun Street, Iyana-Iyesi, Ota, is facing a charge of theft.
The Prosecutor, Insp Emmanuel Adaraloye, told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the offence between August and October at Ajisafe Close, Oko Baba Ajeri, Ota in Ogun.
Adaraloye said that the defendant, who is friend of the complainant, Mohammed Abdulqudus, stole N240,000 from his Guaranty Trust Bank Account.
Two men guilty of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants found in lorry
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Two men were on Monday found guilty of manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who died in the back of a lorry in Essex, England in October 2019.
Gheorghe Nica, 43, from Essex, and the lorry driver, Eamonn Harrison, 23, from Northern Ireland, were found guilty for the deaths of the victims.
During the trial in London, the court heard the victims were discovered in the container after it was parked in an industrial estate in Essex.
It had been taken by road from Dunkirk in France to Zeebrugge in Belgium, from where it was put on a Britain-bound ferry.