Femi Aborisade's Blog

There is no justifiable legal basis for the project of the Federal Government to recover or create grazing reserves across NIGERIA. That project can only be attained by military violence against unarmed people. It is therefore a declaration of avoidable war against the peaceful Nigerian people. It would create and fan embers of mutual ethnic hatred, conflict and avoidable bloodshed. I call on ordinary people to reject and resist the grazing reserves project of the Federal Government. All 36 state Governors, nationally and regionally, have resolved that open grazing is unsustainable. It causes avoidable bloody clashes between herders and farmers. Rather, ranching should be embraced. I do not see how the Federal Government can achieve it's project of creating or recovering grazing preserves across Nigeria.  Firstly, the Grazing Reserves Act of 1964 was limited to the Northern Region; it was not applicable to the other regions. Secondly, section 1 of the Land Use Act vests land owners...

On the 16th day of August 2021, President Mohammadu Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. The PIB is henceforth to be referred to as the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), pursuant to the assent of Mr. President. The PIA has been mostly criticized for providing that the Joint Venture Partners, called Settlors, shall contribute only 3% of their actual operating expenditure in the immediately preceding calendar year to the host community's Development Trust Fund (see Section 240(2) of the Act). However, the central problem with the PIA is beyond provision of 3% of actual operating expenditure to the host Community. The real problem with the PIA is that it is a neo liberal piece of legislation that has now legitimized the privatisation of the NNPC, which ordinary people and radical organisations have been resisting for decades. In other words, the PIA has dispossessed society of the decades of public investment in the NNPC and donated it to the private sector. By Sectio...

      Source-   https://www.sunnewsonline.com/2023-apc-scared-of-coming-of-a-third-force-comrade-femi-aborishade/   (THE SUN) 2023: APC scared of coming of a third force – Comrade Femi Aborishade By Daniel Kanu Social   critic, renowned legal expert, and human rights activist, Comrade Femi Aborishade who was in the trenches with the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi (Senior Advocate of the Masses) in the fight for the nation’s democracy is dissatisfied with the abuse of governance in the country.  In this encounter with Sunday Sun, he told Nigerians that both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition    Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) do not have what it takes to lead the country in 2023. He expressed apprehension on other critical national issues, including PIB, e-transmission of election results, restructuring, among others. Excerpt: Let’s know your take on agitations by different groups in Nigeria, particularly the Sunday I...

  The Centre for Labour Studies (CLS)  unequivocally declares support for the striking medical doctors organized under the National Association of Resident Doctors. The threats of ‘no work, no pay’ and dismissals  (being issued to the striking conscientious medical doctors),  have no basis in law within the context of holistic interpretation of  Section 41(1), Trade Disputes Act (TDA) and Section 30(6)(b) & (c) of the Trade Unions Act , TUA .  The law as established by the apex Court is that statutes should be given holistic interpretation, not subjective, one sided interpretation, to achieve a purposeful end (See  NURTW & Anor v. RTEAN & Ors  (2012) LPELR-7840 (SC). Section 41(1) of the TDA  only requires workers in essential services to give 15 days’ notice  before strike. It does not absolutely prohibit strikes by workers in essential services.  The NARD gave more than 15 days’ strike notice. The demands are not new....