Nigeria, March 6 -- On Sunday, 25 February, ThisDay newspaper published an article titled "A Vacuous Judgment on Dele Giwa," suggesting that the judgment of Honourable Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, delivered on 16 February in Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1301/2021: Incorporated Trustees of Media Rights Agenda v Attorney-General of the Federation, is a futile decision.

Although the newspaper conceded in the article that "liability for crime has no time lag or statute bar," it nonetheless took the view that the court's decision, in effect ordering a re-opening of investigations into the gruesome murder of the renowned journalist, Mr Dele Giwa, more than 37 years after the incident, including the order that the per...