A FISCAL bind on the states: The SWF could not have come at a more inopportune time. Just as the federal government seeks to keep funds from the states and local government, it passes legislation asking states to satisfy unfunded mandates such as the new minimum wage.

THE SWF insults the constitution as did is predecessor, the Excess Crude Account. The excess crude account disrespected the constitution because it sequestered funds rightfully due the states.

In matters election petition, Richard Osuolale Abimbola Akinjide remains a legend.
Having successfully determined the letters and spirit of the Electoral Decree of 1977, proving to the courts that Section 34 (A) (l) (c) (ii) of the Electoral Decree, means that two- thirds of a state is synonymous with votes cast in two – thirds of votes cast in the territorial or physical areas of the state and, thereby, handing Usman Aliyu Shehu Shagari the presidential election victory of 1979, Akinjide remains very relevant to jurisprudential matters in Nigeria.

Politics is a game; it is a contest; it is competition for power. Every human being is said to be a political animal and, therefore, politics can not be extricated from the affairs of men (and women). So, in the push and shove of daily live, men and women are engaged in a perpetual struggle to outdo one another. To tame the animalistic instincts in every creature, man employs his intellect to create rules for the contest. Those rules are meant to be followed to the letter.

After six months of intense legal fireworks on the petition urging holistic judicial probe of the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, pertaining to the April 16 presidential election that favoured the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate President Goodluck Jonathan, one would have expected the adjudicating body to properly scrutinize every shred of evidence adduced by the contending parties, no matter how stupid it may seem, before passing judgment.