Opinion

By IKECHUKWU AMAECHI Thirty years ago, women made a bold global declaration in what came to be known as the Beijing Conference. The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which was adopted at the Conference, stressed the need to uphold all human rights and fundamental freedoms for every woman without exception. Since then, most governments have adopted by consensus a political declaration to respect, protect, and champion the rights, equality and empowerment of women, a fact which Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women, reiterated at the ongoing 69th session of the Commission in New York,…

By IKEDDY ISIGUZO Every man got a right to decide his own destiny; And in this judgment there is no partiality - Bob Marley in his 1979 song, Zimbabwe SENATOR Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan did not need to commit any offence to be suspended. Evidence abounds that His Excellency, Dr Obong Godswill Akpabio, was ready to inflict maximum punishment in a case in which he was the principal accused. The Senate was tangential to the matter. Its inclusion as an institutional victim of Natasha’s allegations against Akpabio failed woefully to befuddle the issues. Natasha was seemingly being punished for not accepting seats…