Introduction As Nigeria teeter on the edge of bankruptcy and most households increasingly find it hard to know when and where their next meal will come from, the jarring insensitivity of our leaders in government is simply shocking as their culture of mindless, selfish and wasteful public expenditure has continued unabetted. Harsh conditions of living...

In the words of Emmeline Pankhurst “Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.” The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgement of 6th September 2023 echoed that unfortunate truth. Many thoughts ran through my mind as I stoically endured the 13-hour torturous judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT). As I sat there diligently...

The elections have come and gone. INEC declared Mr Bola Tinubu as president-elect to the widespread discontent of many who voted. As a result, all the major opposition parties are challenging the validity of the election results in court.  They are questioning the legitimacy of the process and the accuracy of the results as announced...

Yesterday, I went out to vote in the regional election where I’m living at the moment. The election was held on Wednesday – a work day. Scheduled to start from 7.30 am to 9.00 pm. It’s to enable people to go to the nearest polling stations within their neighbourhoods to vote on the way to...

In this very early hour of this fateful day the 25th of February 2023, I feel inclined to write down a few scrambling thoughts before going to sleep. We are at the cusp of choosing our next President. We must largely choose from the pack of our mostly inept and corrupt politicians. And so, we...

The Supreme Court, the Apex Court, the last bus stop, is supposed to establish a profound code of conduct for social behaviour and interaction between man and man, man and society and man and government itself. Its judgments are expected to be the embodiment of the highest values in the nation’s social and political culture...

Every four years since 1999, Nigeria runs a political calendar where the country is subjected to a grotesque ritual to certify those to loot our treasury dry for the next four years. In our characteristic self-preserving wicked mischief – we call it a general election and pretend that it is so. The truth is that...

Once again, many of the terrible rots that have ridden Nigerian body politic and the entire political culture in the country have been exposed and re-enforced by the recent political party primaries election exercise in preparation for the coming 2023 general elections. These incorrigible politicians have indeed elevated their crafty instincts and intrigues to “next-level” in...

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