Section 83 of the Electoral Act 2026: A Deep Exploration of Its Text, Context, and Far-Reaching Implications

Chairman INEC Section 83 of Nigeria’s Electoral Act 2026 represents one of the most significant statutory interventions in the regulation of political parties since the return to democracy in 1999. Enacted amid growing concerns over pre-election litigation, it builds on the monitoring framework in the 2022 Act while introducing a robust jurisdictional ouster clause. Below, …

The Arithmetic of Governance: You Can’t Starve the State and Feed the Nation by Lawson Akhigbe

At its most basic, government is not an abstract machine, it is a collective expression of the people. Its primary mandate is straightforward: preserve security, maintain peace, and deploy the coercive and coordinating power of the state through law enforcement and public institutions. To do this, it draws resources from the same people it serves, …

Manufacturing Scapegoats: How Britain’s Right Turned Welfare into a Weapon by Lawson Akhigbe

There’s a familiar script in British politics, and it’s being performed again with renewed conviction. The villains are well-rehearsed: the poor, the unemployed, the benefit claimant, convenient stand-ins for a much broader set of structural failures. For elements of the Conservative right, and increasingly for Reform UK Ltd, it has become almost doctrinal to argue …