The Ghost of Governance Past: How NDC’s Seriake Dickson’s Bayelsa Legacy Shadows His New Political Frontier by Lawson Akhigbe

Henry Seriake Dickson When Senator Henry Seriake Dickson stood before the microphones at the national convention of the newly minted Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, he spoke with the booming confidence of a seasoned political godfather. Proclaiming the NDC as his "baby" and welcoming opposition heavyweights into what he described as a new democratic …

The Right to Be Poor Somewhere Else: A Constitutional Rejoinder to the Lagos Deportation Applause By Lawson Akhigbe

There is a particular kind of Nigerian who writes passionately about the deportation of the poor from Lagos while composing his thoughts from a flat in Peckham or a suburb of New York. He has not paid Nigerian taxes in eleven years. He sends remittances home at Christmas, which he spends in Nigeria displaying a …

The Nanny Audition: How Kemi Badenoch Learned to Bite the Hand That Fed Her By Lawson Akhigbe

Nigel Farage Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke arrived in Britain with a hundred pounds and a future. Her children were born into it. Now she proposes to dismantle the scaffolding that made all of it possible and she wants credit for the demolition. There is a peculiar theatre that plays out whenever a conservative political party, having …