Author: Centre for Nigeria Progress

Nigeriancentric: Examining current & political affairs through law, history & accountability. Challenging official narratives, records institutional failures, & uses sharp humour to expose political hypocrisy No party loyalty, just facts, memory & critique
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When “We Had No Choice” Becomes a Legal Doctrine: The Doctrine of Necessity in Nigerian Constitutional Law by Lawson Akhigbe

I also want to be clear that it has, in the hands of Nigerian courts, occasionally been stretched to cover acts that the drafters of our constitution would have regarded with the same horror with which a tailor regards a customer who has put on thirty pounds since their last fitting and still insists the suit fits perfectly

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THE LAW AS LOADED GUN: NOTES FROM EDO STATE’S SEASON OF VAGUE STATUTES AND VAGUER MEN By Lawson Akhigbe

Once the apparatus exists, point it wherever is politically convenient. The genius of the trick is that anyone who objects to the pointing can be accused of sympathising with the fear itself.

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