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11/05/2025

https://main.veritasmedia.com.ng/2025/05/11/defection-of-sen-kawu-to-the-ruling-apc-a-betrayal-kwankwaso/

01/05/2025

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11/10/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/a-captured-temple-of-justice/

Surely, if judicial temperament and skill were to be hereditary or sexually transmitted as Mr. Aliyu suggests, this tendency in Nigeria should have had some antiquity. But, among Nigeria’s first eight indigenous CJNs until after Mohammed Uwais who retired in June 2006, only the first, Adetokunbo A...

29/09/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/whispers-about-dr-bala-usman/

Bala Usman, the African student in England, did not climb on the shoulders of Karl Marx, Engels or Lenin to see the mountain top of a liberated authentic African nationalism. He came through the clinical writings of FRANTZ FANON, a medical doctor of African ancestry, via the Caribbean. He did not ne...

26/05/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/fct-25-percent-judge-disappears-on-the-day-of-ruling/

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja has twice disappeared on the days of ruling in a suit to stop the inauguration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president. The suit, No. FHC/ABJ/CS/578/222, was instituted against the Attorney General of the Federation and the Chief Justice of the Fede...

15/05/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/federal-high-court-adjourns-suit-to-stop-the-inauguration-of-tinubu/

Barrister Nwachukwu said the three issues – locus standi, jurisdiction, and whether the case is not before the PEPT - the court wants the plaintiff to address have been dealt with in the originating summons. He added that both the Attorney General of the Federation and the Chief Justice of the Fed...

13/05/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/suit-to-stop-the-inauguration-of-tinubu-for-referral-to-the-pept/

In the reliefs sought, the suit asked the court to give an order setting aside any declaration and/or any certificate of return issued in the February 25, 2023 presidential election, and restrain the chief justice of the federation or any other judicial officer or authority or person from swearing i...

06/05/2023

https://thepolitico.com.ng/inauguration-of-a-new-president-by-may-29-is-not-absolute/

Thus, by virtue of the preceding Section 1(2) of the Constitution, inaugurating a new President on May 29 while the Court (as the final umpire) is yet to call the final result would mean that persons (or a group of persons) have taken control of the Government of Nigeria in a manner that does not ac...

10/11/2022

https://thepolitico.com.ng/gov-zulums-violent-welcome-to-atiku/

I was hoping that given the experience of the violent reception that the Zulum government organized the APC thugs to give Atiku, the police would prevent a violent farewell from the thugs. I was disappointed. The thugs threw stones at us and some of them holding sticks rushed closer to the passing c...

15/08/2022

https://thepolitico.com.ng/dtigers-prep-for-4th-window-fiba-wc-qualifier/

D'Tigers Head Coach Mike Brown has invited 15 players to camp ahead of the fourth window of the FIBA World Cup qualifiers between 26th and 28th of August.

12/08/2022

https://thepolitico.com.ng/gov-wike-in-a-stream-of-consciousness/

Wike has every right to be angry, but he should have realized that politics is ‘bitch’, particularly in these parts of the world where the major motivation for most politicians is to place themselves advantageously. Wike should have realized that contesting an election is synonymous with buying ...

12/08/2022

https://thepolitico.com.ng/dele-momodus-letter-to-gov-wike/

Your people love you stupendously for the services delivered to them. PDP has been your solid platform. You should never destroy a bridge after crossing the river.