INEC, David Mark, and Coming Abachaian Coronation By Farooq Kperogi

With INEC's overtly partisan, intentionally illegal, and possibly remote-controlled withdrawal of recognition for the David Mark-led ADC, Nigeria has officially reverted to full-on Abacha-era suffocation of even the wispiest pretense to competitive electoral politics.   Lawyers have said that the judgment of the appeal court, which INEC invoked as a convenient crutch to carry out a …

The Party That Controls Everything—Except Their Own Guy by Lawson Akhigbe

There is something almost poetic about the current state of American politics. The Republican Party controls the United States Congress—both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives—and their man, Donald Trump, is sitting comfortably in the White House. In football terms, they have the striker, midfield, defence, goalkeeper, referee, and—if we’re …

NATO, Trump, and the Unravelling of Western Hegemony by Lawson Akhigbe

At the close of the World War II, the world did not find peace so much as it found structure. Two opposing security architectures emerged from the ruins of Europe: the Western alliance institutionalised in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Eastern bloc consolidated under the Warsaw Pact. These were not mere military alliances; they …