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Ironsi Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, Minister of Education in the First Republic, under Tafawa Balewa, and Minister of Justice under Alhaji Shehu Shagari, and one of the most brilliant lawyers ever in Nigeria, stood before Justice Olujide Somolu. Somolu was Chief Justice of the Western State. Akinjide was a known Samuel Ladoke Akintola sympathizer and …
Continue reading "The 1966 coup and the Macbeth tragedy, By Festus Adedayoby Festus Adedayo"
What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most? It’s really called the summer Olympics and football is really what’s it’s about, to my brethren in North America, soccer it is. It’s a goal.
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 …
Continue reading "INEC, David Mark, and Coming Abachaian Coronation By Farooq Kperogi"
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 …
Continue reading "The Party That Controls Everything—Except Their Own Guy by Lawson Akhigbe"
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