THE English playwright John  Webster, in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, was the one who said “Ambition… is a great man’s madness” -impliedly suggesting that the urge to achieve is more the affliction of those who already have achieved, than it is the malady of commoners who should have every reason to want to achieve. If ‘ambition’ is more to the ‘great man’ than it is to the ‘commoner’, the question then arises, ‘why should ‘greatness’ allow itself to be troubled by the wearisome aspiration to be even greater?

Osun is an ill-foreboding metaphor for our democracy, but what can we do?

Since the ‘law’ needs not advance the ‘common good’ to be legitimate, an elected President needs not legitimize his actions to improve that ‘common good’

The debate about whether or not ‘national security’ should be superior to the ‘rule of law’ is a needless one

The ‘rule of law’ often constitutes itself into a bitch, but that man also has no inhibition, whenever necessary, to treat the ‘rule of law’ as such –if that is all that it takes to overcome its bitchy side.

I AM currently almost half way through my LLM Programme in the area of ‘International Law And Diplomacy’. Quite an interesting area of law, you should know. And I love the most the aspect of it called ‘International Humanitarian Law’ -otherwise referred to as the ‘Law of  Conflict’. Or the ‘Law of War’. Yes, you heard right; the ‘law of war’!

All the vaunting puff that Oyetola could muster throughout our interview was “I have a background that most of them do not have

It is the same mistake that the opposition PDP is making now; or has already made: whipping the sentiments of tribe, religion and geography; -a dangerous tripod by which it alone stands the most to be hurt

It is not true that the majority is always right; sometimes it is the silent minority that is right

It was how those who supported him treacherously went about it, (in much the same way Saraki did to grab the Senate Presidency) that is the bird’s eye view by which I intend to espouse the concepts of ‘minorities’ and ‘majorities’ in a democracy

Why must lawmakers be compensated for their own altruistic partisan conviction?

It makes even better sense to insist that all members of a political party –and not just it’s so called self-anointed ‘stakeholders’- should determine who the party throws up for contest

To kick start his ‘Six Point Integral Action Plan’, Aregbesola had ingeniously tapped into a delicate financial instrument called ‘promissory notes’

Roving across ideological boundaries and political time lines in search of where the political grass is the greenest;that is the new political ideology

It is one thing, they say, to do the ‘right thing’, but it is entirely another to do the ‘thing right’