On Saturday 14 July 2012, the 15th Annual Professor Wole Soyinka Lecture series took place at the London South Bank University. Three distinguished speakers, Dr Ibibia Worika (Legal Counsel, Commonwealth Secretariat,...
Press Releases
NAS Condemns Christmas Bombings
As peoples all over the world of the Christian persuasion, celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ on the 25th of December 2011, Nigeria was once again subjected to a series of bomb explosions targeted at worship centres...
DISCLAIMER
It has come to the attention of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEADOGS a.k.a. PYRATES CONFRATERNITY (hereinafter called NAS) that certain mimic upstarts or pseudo groups in the Nigerian tertiary institutions and in some...
The State of Insecurity and the Proliferation of Violence:
IMPLICATIONS ON THE POLITY The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) has observed with grave concern the current state of insecurity in the country. We are worried that this dangerous trend is gradually assuming a new...
Towards a Mediocre-Free Leadership in Nigeria
In April 2011, Nigerians will return to the polls to elect a new set of leaders to pilot the affairs of the nation for another four years. Our politicians, always with a penchant for the spectacular, are already...
NAS Condemns Nigeria’s 50th Anniversary Abuja Bombings
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) unequivocally condemns the dastardly bomb blast that claimed the lives of several innocent Nigerians and friends of Nigeria in Abuja on Nigeria’s 50th Independence...
Nigeria’s 50th Independence Anniversary – Our collective failure to build a virile Nation
On 1st October 2010, Nigeria marks its 50th Anniversary as an independent and Sovereign Nation. A Golden Jubilee, is a milestone in the life of an individual or a nation, and typically calls for celebration. This...
Federal Legislators’ Pay Rise: Reprehensible and Condemnable
The National Association of Seadogs just like many concerned Nigerians is dismayed to note that despite the very trying economic circumstances the country is going through, the National Assembly could go ahead, without...
NAS Press Release: ON THE PLANNED VISIT OF AL-BASHIR OF SUDAN TO NIGERIA
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) enjoins Nigeria, as a party to the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), to arrest and surrender Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, who is wanted for war...
Nigeria @ 49: We Must Keep Hope Alive! – National Association of Seadogs
Our political leaders in their usual effusive and ostentatious style would roll out the drums in Abuja and all states of the Federation to celebrate the national Independence Day in what has become a ritual on every...
NAS Press Release: ON THE MURDER OF MR. BAYO OHU OF THE GUARDIAN
The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) strongly condemns the dastardly assassination of Mr. Bayo Ohu, the Deputy News Editor of The Guardian, by unknown gunmen in the presence of his children. We have no doubt...
NAS Press Release: Gani Fawehinmi: We must not let him die
The death in the early hours of Saturday, Sept. 5 2009 of Gani Fawehinmi, one of Nigeria’s most outstanding legal luminaries and human and civil rights activist was received with shock, trepidation and despair by...