The judiciary, universally thought to be the last hope of the common man, is not exactly viewed as such in Nigeria. Based on recent and distant past events, that arm of the modern government is mostly untrustworthy, duplicitous, and shady. This very vital arm is structured to arbitrate in contentious matters. Thus, the judiciary resolves disputes, and that puts its status sacred and somewhat ecclesiastical. But it appears to have squandered that hallowed reverence.
“Happiness is a crime in Nigeria.” This is a line – a line of distinction – I am lifting from a message sent to me as a response to my last Friday’s column on ‘“Professor Mabel Evwierhoma on Rubiales and “Wetin women want.” The owner of the lifted line is a positively dangerous poet, radical […]
When I opened what has turned out here to be a justifiable debate on the Adamawa gubernatorial problem, I never believed that it would be this prolonged. More than several readers, even from the diaspora, were in touch with me in diverse ways.
Today I mean to keep my promise to do a follow-up on the submissions Professors Ibrahim Bello-Kano and Ademola Da sylva tendered and as illustrated here regarding our national Trickster Speaker who by now cannot but appear as nothing but a vulnerable creature in torments of mind of every ASUU member.