“Give advice. If people don’t listen, let adversity deal with them”— African proverb. Ready or not, Nigeria appears to have been effectively placed in an election mode. There is enough in the last by-elections to draw some clues about the rest of the journey, and the elections themselves. There is also a huge […]

From last week continues the narrative how President Obasanjo deployed his presidential powers to ensure that his chosen candidate, Chief Evan Enwerem was elected Senate President over Dr Chuba Okadigbo, the candidate of majority of senators.  With the support of President Obasanjo’s allies in the ruling party, plus support from two opposition parties, AD and ANPP, […]

By Dele Sobowale “The time is a quarter to midnight” — Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009 Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution and Nobel Prize Winner in Agriculture in 1970 opened his address while receiving the prestigious award with those words. It catalyzed governments globally to take the issue of food security seriously. Nigeria briefly embraced it […]

The clans gathered. The intellectual clan surpassed the academic. The former flowed into the radical. The radicals bowed to the revolutionary. The revolutionary clan flowed into the Pan-Africanist. The Pan-Africanist made way for the traditional. We did not cry. It is not our culture to mourn the elderly who paddles to yonder sea. Rather, we rejoice […]

Seven years ago, in 2018, my good friend and former Dean of Law at the University of Ghana at Legon, Professor Raymond Atuguba, undertook a path-breaking study which sought “to move away from the perception that Justices of the Supreme Court dispense justice impartially under a constitutional democracy and reflect on the influences on the Justices as they are taking decisions.”