When a Tax Law is an Illegality By Farooq A. Kperogi

What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu administration has transmogrified and metastasized into an allegation of unexampled transmutation of a duly passed law to an illegality. It’s by now well known that a law passed by the National Assembly and assented to by the president may …

Trump and the Republican Love Story: When Cowardice Met Its Wet Dream by Lawson Akhigbe

If the Republican Party were a romantic comedy, it would star Donald Trump as the loud, orange leading man who crashes the wedding, steals the bride, and then insists it was his wedding all along. The guests — that is, the GOP establishment — would stand there clutching their pearls, muttering, “Well, he’s not exactly …

Nigel Farage: Britain’s Premium-Grade Political Biohazard by Lawson Akhigbe

If Britain had a Ministry of Strange Phenomena, Nigel Farage would be classified under Category A: Entities That Cannot Be Destroyed by Conventional Means. He is the political cockroach after the apocalypse—the one survivor wandering Westminster asking, “So then, what’s our plan on immigration?” The Dulwich Years: The Prequel Nobody Wanted Nigel Farage’s origin story …

TAX LAW GAZETTE-GATE!!!! by Lawson Akhigbe

The National Assembly leadership wants Nigerians to believe that re-gazetting the tax law is a confidence-building exercise. In reality, it is an admission that the process has gone badly wrong—and that no one is quite sure who changed what, when, or on whose authority. Let us begin with the obvious. The 10th National Assembly, under …

Trump Bombs Nigeria (Apparently With Our Consent): A Festive Farce in Several Acts by Lawson Akhigbe

At about 2pm on Christmas Day—because nothing says “peace on earth” like a surprise airstrike—Donald J. Trump announced on his TruthSocial pulpit that he had ordered military strikes on ISIS camps in Nigeria. While most Nigerians were digesting rice, goat meat and unresolved family grudges, the Commander-in-Chief of Festive Chaos was busy pressing the “Tomahawk” …