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Comparative Analysis: The House vs Senate Subsidy Probes – A Tale of Two Committees, One Endless Farce by Lawson Akhigbe

In the grand Nigerian tradition of investigating the same scandal twice so that everyone can feel useful, the 2011–2012 fuel subsidy crisis produced two legislative reports. One was loud, detailed, and eventually self-sabotaged. The other was quieter, slower, and largely forgotten. Both documented the same institutional rot; neither delivered the cleansing the country pretended to …

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Nigeria’s Unlawful Judges And Wholly-Owned Judicial Surrogates By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Nigeria Judicial Council Two and a half months from a general election, political surrogates have become Nigeria’s hommes du jour. These are people trusted to represent or advocate the positions and platforms of principals running for office. They inhabit many spaces and perform in many theatres.Political surrogates are not supposed to be found presiding over …

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The Farouk Lawan Committee: Nigeria’s Brief Moment of Clarity Before the Fog Returned

Farouk Lawan In the fevered early weeks of 2012, while Occupy Nigeria still had the streets and the government still had a pulse, the House of Representatives decided to do something unusual. It set up a committee that actually tried to follow the money. Farouk Lawan, then still wearing the halo of “Mr Integrity,” was …

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The Crocodile in the Congo: How Aguiyi-Ironsi Went from Nigerian Battalion Boss to UN Force Commander and Came Home with a Reputation (and a Stuffed Reptile) by Lawson Akhigbe

If the Congo Crisis of the early 1960s was Africa’s first post-independence horror show mutinies, secessions, mercenaries, Cold War meddling, and the tragic assassination of Patrice Lumumba then Major (later Major-General) Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was one of the more improbable leads in the United Nations’ attempt to impose a bit of order on the chaos. The …

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