By Bayo Akinloye
A former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell has described Nigeria’s political elites as panicky and as such, considering “radical options” against the backdrop of the worsening insecurity in Nigeria, although they have yet to agree on “radical restructuring” of the country.
Campbell, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa poli cy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in his latest post on the CFR website that, some Nigerian movers and shakers appeared panicky over the worsening security nationwide.
He cited calls by a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, for President Muhammadu Buhari to seek foreign assistance to tackle the nation’s deterioration of security.
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HAGÃ TÃA (The Guam Daily Post) â A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that laid the groundwork for territorial-federal relations continues to be criticized as a racist relic of Americaâs history.
On Wednesday, Guam Vice Speaker Tina Muna-Barnes held a public hearing on Resolution 56-36, a bipartisan measure she authored that supports a U.S. congressional effort to publicly reject the decisions known as the Insular Cases.
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona who introduced the House resolution, testified in a prerecorded video that he views the cases as âracist, and contrary to the U.S. Constitution,â and argued they established an unequal legal and political dynamic between the United States and its territories.
Resolution rejecting U.S. Supreme Court Insular Cases heard
Joe Taitano II
A hearing was held Wednesday for Resolution 56, introduced by Vice Speaker Tina Muña Barnes, which would throw in support for a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that calls for the rejection of the “Insular Cases.”
The cases are race-based U.S. Supreme Court rulings from the early 1900s that have been used to deny equal rights to residents of the territories. They state that constitutional protections and political equality may not apply to the U.S. territories, which are home to “alien races” unable to be governed “according to Anglo-Saxon principles.”