Nigerian Senate The opposition caucus in the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday squandered what many observers believe was its best opportunity to firmly entrench real-time electronic transmission of election results in the country’s electoral framework.By the end of the plenary session, opposition senators were left rueing a tactical miscalculation that allowed the Presidency, working in concert…
Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and Lead Counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has expressed deep concern over the killing of more than 400 Nigerians within a single week, lamenting what he described as the political leadership’s alarming indifference to the scale of the tragedy.Ejiofor decried the fact that, rather…
Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor Human rights lawyer, Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has described Nigerian elites as political hypocrites who only praise the dead while ignoring the failures of the living. In a strongly worded statement titled Wednesday Musing: “Saint Buhari” – Nigeria’s Newest Economic Martyr?, Ejiofor criticized what he called a wave of revisionist eulogies following the death…
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio The prospect of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, returning to the Senate appears increasingly unlikely as Senate President Godswill Akpabio challenges the Federal High Court ruling that recommended her reinstatement. Akpabio, through his legal team, filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja…
Vice President Kashim Shettima and Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara Human rights lawyer and legal counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Sir Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has criticized recent remarks by Vice President Senator Kashim Shettima, describing them as both a “true confession” and an example of the double standards that pervade Nigerian politics. Ejiofor…
