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For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans to roll out next year. It’s not because I did not recognize its gravity, but because I am not an economist and did not want to wade into a technically dense debate armed only with moral outrage. …
Continue reading "Tinubu’s New Tax Regime as Sovereignty for Sale By Farooq A. Kperogi"
Anyone whose life consists of daily references to the Immigration Rules will tell you that the experience can feel a lot like deep ocean exploration in the Mariana Trench: despite constant research, you will still make new discoveries, even when you think there are no further depths to which you can sink. And like the …
Continue reading "Briefing: what is leave outside the Rules? By Alex Piletska"
What snack would you eat right now? Skinless, cut up apple. It's crunchy and sweet.
Gina Yashere once cracked a joke that should have come with a constitutional amendment: “If you kill someone in Nigeria, you will get away with it.” She followed up with the immortal line that “CSI in Nigeria means Can’t Solve It.” This was comedy, of course—except Nigeria heard it and said, write that down, write …
Continue reading "CSI Nigeria: Can’t Solve It (Season 64, Still Loading…) by Lawson Akhigbe"
The framers of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution were many things, but foolishness was not one of them. Having watched the First Republic implode under the weight of ideological prostitution euphemistically called carpet crossing, they set out—quite deliberately—to kill the practice with consequences. Section 68(1)(g) of the Constitution was the weapon of choice: defect from the …
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