The Supreme Court and national interest: The judiciary as a public-policy institution (2), by Usman Sarki
“The essence of federalism is full mutual consent.” — John Buchan Recalling Nigeria’s history in this discourse matters because the country is not an ordinary political community or mere contraption, as some advocates of restructuring erroneously imagine. It comprises peoples of deep consciousness, immense diversity in language, religion, culture, historical experience and political organisation, who […]
Youth as the trustees of civilisation (1)
IT was the great nineteenth century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli who described the youth as “the trustees of prosperity”. I would also add that they are also the trustees of posterity – nay, of civilisation itself.
2019 elections and the dangers ahead
The fellows who are drawing guns over ward congresses would deploy ballistic missiles when they they have to face general elections with other parties. If others have to prepare themselves to be able to engage them, it will be a house of war
Taking the back seat (2)
Nigeria’s finest moment was on January 11, 1976 at Addis Ababa in Ethiopia at an extra ordinary conference on liberation struggles in Africa. General Murtala Mohammed spoke that afternoon and the world listened
Class action suit against Eko Electricity Distribution Plc
ONE of the seminal quotes of Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate, was written while he, a Yoruba man, was in prison, fighting the injustice meted against the Igbo. Said Soyinka: “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
Economic development impossible under APC
THIS is the season for second term seekers in Nigerian politics. What Nigerians should be asking each of them is one question: what did you do with the first term? A corollary to that question is: are Nigerians better off today than when you came in? Judged by the irrefutable evidence at our disposal, the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, is a failure.
