Election rigging: Universities should reply Obi, by Tonnie Iredia
A scathing recent remark by the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress NDC, Mr. Peter Obi that Nigerian professors now help illiterates to rig elections in the country must have disconcerted many citizens. It is certainly a remark which keeps Nigeria quite low in the comity of nations more so as it shows the irony […]
Treasury looting as incurable madness
LEBEN und tot lassen”. This is a German expression for what has today become fashionable in Nigeria – Live and let die.
The making and unmaking of a ‘small’ president (2)
OLUSEGUN Adeniyi’s third book: Against The Run Of Play (he has now written about the General Sani Abacha, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan regimes) was bound to ruffle feathers any which way because of the tempestuous trappings of the Jonathan era which produced the first democratic transfer of power from one regime to another in our history.
Jonathan’s contentious claims, alternative facts
Jonathan simply refuses to see or understand the complexity of the world beyond crass ethno-religious invectives
America, Britain, Goodluck Jonathan and the 2015 election
THIS month, precisely the 29th day, makes it exactly two full years to the day the present administration was inaugurated. That single event was preceded by the rather (in our parts of the world) unprecedented feat of the defeat of an incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan.
Millions of dollars/naira: Abandonment/discovery principles of bona vancatia/res nullius/treasure trove
By Afe Babalola “The question however is whether the government can legitimately spend what legally is not its? Put in another way, can government without more proceed to spend the recovered monies merely because they were abandoned properties? Or is something else required to vest proprietary interests of these monies in government before it can […]
