The governance processes of nearly all modern states are regulated by Constitutions that establish organs of Government to run government business in the form of (i) the making or repealing…
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Having queried the criticisms that usually trail the appointment of judges and justices to trial and appellate courts – in the piece titled “Appointment to the Bench – Much Ado…
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The governance, administration and management of the affairs of a modern state stand on a tripod. It consists of the making, execution and interpretation of laws. In most modern democratic…
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The gap in life expectancy between the average Africans and their leaders is indisputably wide. African leaders have better medical care, besides being insulated from the vicissitudes of poverty, ignorance,…
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Students of creation believe that God – the incomparable master geometrician – designed, created and sustained the universe on mathematical laws and numbers. “To whom then will you compare Me,…
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The Fulani (Fula, Fulah, Fulbe, Fellata) is one of the most written about ethnic groups in the world. I am not certain that they are, in total, up to 70…
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I had an experience over the Christmas holidays that I am yet to recover from, psychologically. My wife brought our children from Lagos to join me in Abuja for the…
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I cannot rule out the possibility of an invention that will have a fundamental impact on tomorrow’s people much more than how the internet has impacted our world. Man has…
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Can infidelity go out of fashion? Having sex with someone who is not your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend does not seem to be generating guilty feelings like many other…
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers-Aristotle. In democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of…
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The problem of insecurity and lawlessness has forever been with us in Nigeria. What is, however, particularly alarming about the new state of insecurity in the country is its pervasiveness.…
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An Attorney is a person designated to transact business for another – a legal agent with the authorization of a principal to do what the principal can lawfully do. The…
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Losing a confidant, friend or someone your life has, in one way or the other, been intertwined or associated with has a way of taking away a part of you.…
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There are not too many endeavours that exert stronger expressive behaviours in human beings than sports. Indeed, emotions are part of sports and are as important to the athletes as…
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It is not enough for us to assume the importance of elections to representative governments. If we say elections are one of democracy’s defining characteristics in that they confer legitimacy…
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Not many things are as difficult to parse – and manifold in their aspects – as democracy. When melded with such concepts as representational and constitutional government, democracy becomes a…