The Nigerian Army has lamented poor enlistment of South-east youths into the country’s military. Leader of the 2025 Army Recruitment Enlightenment Team Chima Ekeator disclosed this on Friday. Mr Ekeator, a brigadier-general, spoke during an enlightenment town hall meeting with chairpersons of local government areas as well as traditional rulers in the state. The army…
Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country’s retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of overturning a wrongful conviction excessively lengthy. But the prospects of swift reform are unclear, with fierce opposition from within the Justice Ministry to one of the key proposed changes — restricting objections from prosecutors…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has strongly condemned a proposed bill in the National Assembly seeking to criminalize electoral non-participation, describing it as an affront to democratic principles and a glaring misplacement of legislative priorities. In a statement issued on Sunday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the association’s National Vice President for Inter-Campus and…
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-Spanish Nobel Prize-winning author whose work explored the dangers of totalitarianism and who once ran for president, has died at the age of 89, according to his family. “It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by…
Image Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration – Public Domain Dictators defend their rule with guns. Democrats defend their rule with paper. Of course, the constitution that upholds democracy is not just any piece of paper. It is a document backed up by political institutions, by courts, and by the public will. In a…
