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The Doctrine of Necessity in a Constitutional Democracy: A Nigerian and Comparative Perspective by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria Supreme Court There is a question that has long occupied my thinking as a student of Nigerian jurisprudence — one that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of legal theory, political survival, and constitutional philosophy. How can a doctrine of necessity validly exist within a constitutional democracy? And more pointedly, how has Nigerian jurisprudence absorbed …
The Ghost of Section 137(3): Why the Courts Keep Clearing Goodluck Jonathan by Lawson Akhigbe
For an ex-president who left office over a decade ago, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continues to loom large over Nigeria’s political chessboard. Every election cycle, a familiar dance plays out: rumors of his return spark a flurry of panic, followed swiftly by a wave of lawsuits aiming to lock him out of the villa permanently.The recent …
The Return of the Accidental Man who waka come by Lawson Akhigbe
A nation that spent a decade asking what Goodluck Jonathan did is now spending the next, asking him to come back and do it again. The man himself has said nothing. He rarely did. There is a peculiar affliction in Nigerian political life whereby a man may spend five years doing virtually nothing in office, …
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The Billionaire Who Saved Us From Sanity: How Rupert Murdoch and Fox News Perfected the Outrage Economy by Lawson Akhigbe
For nearly three decades, a single man has sat atop a golden throne made of old newspaper print and cable cords, gazing down at the United States and asking: “But what if they were significantly more furious?”That man is Rupert Murdoch. And his crowning achievement, Fox News Channel—launched in October 1996—didn’t just change American political …
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