Bedrooms, back-pockets and beck-and-call in Nigeria’s elections, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Gavel and Themis statue in the court library. Initially, politicians appeared to believe that they needed to have excellent lawyers ...
Gavel and Themis statue in the court library. Initially, politicians appeared to believe that they needed to have excellent lawyers ...
By assigning priority to “political cases” in a manner that grants swift access to courts for politicians like Ahmad Lawan, ...
Mujahid Asari Dokubo. ...in 2023, the shoe is on the other foot. There is a new party at the helm ...
General Oligui Brice Nguema. The focus on what appears to be a contagion theory of coups in Africa misses the ...
In many African countries, increasingly, elections have become costly misadventures implemented to arrest choice and putting democracy in reverse. Citizens, ...
ECOMOG sodiers in Liberia. The use of force in defence of the idea of a sovereign republic or of democracy ...
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio chairing a Senate screening of Ministers. For playing their part excellently in this ritual, Senate President, ...
The focus on subsidy removal cops out of hard decisions on accountability and on shrinking the size and cost of ...
Picture credit: Reuters/Souleymane Camara If anything, there is recent evidence that Africans in many countries are increasingly open to the ...
This then is the narrative of interlocked and overlapping destinies and mutating machinations that makes "Policing the Nigeria Police" such ...
Bandits Quite clearly, successive regimes in Nigeria have found pockets of banditry useful in the enterprise of taking and keeping ...
As the country turns the page on a toxic eight years, there is an opportunity to re-think the metrics and ...
Senator Bulkachuwa and retired Justice Bulkachuwa. The only statement that has come out of the NJC meeting instead was about allocation ...
The culture wars. In reality, this recent slew of laws on human sexuality across Africa is very much about politics. ...
President Muhammadu Buhari ...leadership at the highest levels requires not just asceticism and discipline; it is also about coalition building ...
When they arrive in less than a fortnight, those whose livelihoods depend on this successor may decide that using that ...
Supreme Court of Nigeria Politicians have learnt to turn election dispute resolution into auditions for the shifting of judicial deck ...
In the face of arguably the continent’s most serious crisis since the Rwanda Genocide, the AU’s response has been inexplicably ...
Hudu Yunusa-Ari, former INEC REC in Adamawa State. In many ways, the drama that accompanied the Adamawa State governorship elections ...
With a current landmass of 1,886,068 km2, Sudan is nearly double the size of Nigeria and the third largest country ...
Those who wonder how these killings have lasted and deepened in intensity for as long as they have need not ...
Mike was one of those people who made you feel they were in your life long before you were conceived. ...
Mr Osewa’s apology hardly helped its author. First, it came from a place that hardly abjured collective punishment on grounds ...
Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola Election petitions have become a preoccupation of judges in Nigeria and around ...
When he emerged as Vice-President in 2015, Osinbajo arrived with an intellect and record more accomplished than any previous occupants ...
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