In Nigeria, misconduct does not attract consequences; it attracts promotions. Power is acquired, not to serve, but to misbehave freely. Once you find your way into office—by hook, crook, or midnight arithmetic—the law immediately becomes advisory, and the Constitution is reduced to motivational literature. The rule of law exists only in textbooks, conference halls, and …
Directing camera crew from the oval office If Shakespeare were alive today, he would scrap Macbeth and write The Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago. Because Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States—and apparently the first President of Reality TV—did not govern the country as a statesman, oh no. He governed as though America were …
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Jibrin Okutepa SAN I woke up this morning with a heavy heart—and a heavier sense of disappointment. The Nigerian legal profession, once proudly called a noble and honourable calling, is steadily mutating into something unrecognisable. The ethics that should guide lawyers to be society’s moral compass are now being treated like relics of a forgotten …
There was a time—mythical now, like steady electricity—when membership of the Nigerian professional class carried with it an assumption of integrity. Judges were presumed to judge, doctors to heal, lawyers to argue cases rather than negotiate outcomes in corridors. Today, that assumption feels dangerously nostalgic. What we are witnessing is not isolated misconduct, but a …
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