Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Emir of Kano, is an Islamic modernist and reformist. I arrive at this conclusion by the sheer weight of his contributions to contemporary Islamic thought, particularly on the question of Islamic Economic thought and Law, and particularly in its applications in what we now generally call “the Muslim North.” I am always a bit careful about a blanket description of the North as “overwhelmingly Muslim,” because we have no credible census to determine that. No one knows the number of Christians and Muslims living their lives daily in that part of the upper North of Nigeria.

The consequences of the president exemplifying a disregard for the courts is quite clear. Soon, ordinary citizens themselves will begin to see the court of justice as an inconsequential organ of the state, and will disregard either the courts or the rulings of the court

There is a dangerous wave of anti-Fulani feelings across Nigeria, fanned by a scurrilous form of political populism now riding on the back of the fiction of a Fulani hegemony in Nigeria.

An executive office with the kind of power it has in Nigeria is a recipe for corruption. The president is a god, and issue decrees. Such decrees may be self-serving nonetheless, and it would not matter. And such a power gives coverage to the kind of disregard functionaries appointed by the president accord the National Assembly.

Nothing adds further to the significance of the lives of Robert Adeyinka Adebayo and Sam Ogbemudia other than the lives they have led, and the values that they now typify in the minds of those who have been inspired by their public service