A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, yesterday, convicted and sentenced two of the four defendants alleged to have kidnapped Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to a 20-year-jail term each. Justice Binta Nyako, in a judgment, held that the prosecution had been able to establish the counts proffered against Kelvin Ezeigbe and Frank Azuekor, who were 1st […]
Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has said that compared to 214 Chibok schoolgirls missing under former President Goodluck Jonathan, the situation has worsened with 807 school pupils kidnapped by criminals under the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Ozekhome on Sunday asked when Nigeria itself would be abducted if urgent security […]
Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN Strange bedfellows as an idiom was probably invented by legendary William Shakespeare in his epic, “The Tempest” (2-2): “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”. Democracy is not only antithetical to, but constitutes a strange bedfellow with dictatorship. Dictatorship, as we have given in part 8, is nothing but despotism, autocracy […]
A senior lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) said on Friday that former Secretary to the Federal Government Chief Ayim Pius Ayim is being held by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), under duress and undue influence. He said in a statement that contrary to newspapers publication that Ayim has been released. “The truth is […]