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Unlawful Orders, Lawful Refusals: When Soldiers Say No
One of the more persistent myths about the military—American or otherwise—is that it runs on blind obedience. Orders come down, and they are followed. Full stop. Reality is less convenient, and far more interesting. Modern military law, particularly in the United States, is built on a different premise: obedience is required, but only to lawful …
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The Politics of the Street: Power, Persona, and the Tinubu Question by Lawson Akhigbe
There are moments in politics when the fog lifts—when rhetoric, mythology, and carefully curated narratives fall away, and what remains is something far more primal. Call it instinct. Call it method. Or, less charitably, call it the politics of the street. “Eureka,” one might say—because sometimes recognition arrives not through revelation, but through pattern. To …
Analysis of Challenges to the Ouster Clause in Section 83(5)–(6) of the Electoral Act, 2026
The ouster clause in Section 83(5)–(6) of Nigeria’s Electoral Act, 2026 (signed February 2026) represents one of the most contentious innovations in the statute. It seeks to insulate “internal affairs” of political parties from judicial scrutiny, codifying and expanding the traditional “convenient fiction” critiqued in Lawson Akhigbe’s April 2026 article. Enacted against a backdrop of …
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