On Thursday December 15, 2016 the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria held an executive session during which it rejected the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by President Muhammadu Buhari based on an adverse ‘’security report’’ authored by the State Security Service (SSS)….
By: Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator Justin Fadipe Centre Commonwealth of Dominica West Indies fadipeb@cwdom.dm Politics in Africa has always been and still is a uniquely brutish winner takes all contact sport; It is not unique because it is a hit or be hit macabre duel, ….politics everywhere is after all cast…
By: Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator Justin Fadipe Centre Commonwealth of Dominica West Indies fadipeb@cwdom.dm Want to talk records ? Here is one. …Attorney at law then …Law professor then …First Lady Arkansas then …First Lady United States then …American senator then …Presidential candidate then …Secretary of State then again …Presidential candidate….
By: Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator Justin Fadipe Centre Commonwealth of Dominica West Indies fadipeb@cwdom.dm Last night I stumbled on the article below; “Women are being left out of Africa’s stories. I want to change that” – Eliza Anyangwe – (https://gu.com/p/4t3ye/sbl). If I had wanted all along to write about Ebun…
By: Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator Justin Fadipe Centre Commonwealth of Dominica West Indies fadipeb@cwdom.dm There is hardly a country, the Nigerian grade of good, bad and ugly . And what is ugly can be really ugly. The last government was sent packing not on account of what good it had done,…
Prof. Basil Jide Fadipe Medical Surgeon, Teacher, Social Commentator To be black, no matter how straight or nuanced the story behind the blackness, is also in the end more to be viewed as African….. for good or bad. And though blacks dispersed around the world no longer represent a homogenous group, ….courtesy history and accidents…
“Crackdown” On Judicial Officers – Separating The Law From Sentiments By Inibehe Effiong The State Security Service (SSS) embarked on an unprecedented “crackdown” on allegedly corrupt judicial officers across the country over the weekend. Among the judicial officers whose houses were searched and thereafter arrested and detained are two Justices of the Supreme Court of…
Re: Roadmap for the Growth and Development of the Nigerian Mining Industry I have a very good friend: Oluwatobi Daniel Fayemiwo. Tobi is a man of few words; words that are usually measured to the mien and intellect of the parties to dialogue. The credulous and the ignorant are left clutching straws, but those who…
A Few Outstandingly Bad Eggs We are faced with monumental levels of corruption in Nigeria today. In the armed-forces, the civil service, the judiciary, legislature, and even the private sector, corrupt practises are rife. People that are remunerated to defend the interests of institutions and organisations turn around to undermine, and in some cases, destroy…
On occasions like this, I sorely miss my departed and dear brother, attorney Kunle Fadipe; he would have treated me to something close or equal to a forensic analysis of the circumstances: either that or some well argued but laughable cynicism of the system. He would have walked me from the roots, point me along…