Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. A needle in haystack, jotting the first thing that comes to mind. The vastness of my mind and multiple things that drops in that vastness can’t be captured for WordPress therapy sessions.
A Needle
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Tinubu, Trump, and the Fine Art of Expensive Nothingness by Lawson Akhigbe
If politics were currency, then Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Donald Trump would be legal tender—widely circulated, frequently disputed, and of highly questionable backing. At first glance, they operate in different jurisdictions: one in the bustling, improvisational theatre of Nigerian politics, the other in the overproduced reality show that is American democracy. But scratch beneath the …
It’s Not the Tweet, It’s the Delete: INEC, Incognito Mode, and the Gospel According to Watergate by Lawson Akhigbe
Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan SAN There is an old political maxim—vintage, durable, and minted in the scandal foundry of the Watergate scandal—that insists: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” The phrase gained immortality when Richard Nixon discovered that while a break-in could be explained away, a clumsy attempt to bury it could not. Fast-forward …
INEC, ADC And The Latin Phrase: Another View by Azu Ishiekwene
There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of a colonial past, that make the courtroom forbidding. It is the language, especially Latin, that often turns justice into an elaborate puzzle, hiding meaning in …
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The Kind Samaritan is God
Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you. I was stranded with no money to get home, so I stepped into a corner shop. The shopkeeper—an Asian man—didn’t hesitate. Without questions or ceremony, he handed me a weekly bus pass.When I got paid, I went back to repay him. He …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 