On Trump's firing of Erika McEntarfer, and the peculiar belief that sacking a statistician changes arithmetic There is a particular breed of authoritarian impulse, not the jackbooted kind, which at least has the virtue of being honest about its intentions, but the softer, more petulant variety, which believes that reality is a subordinate. That if …
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What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? It will come around, nothing is new.
To call the 10th Nigerian Senate a "rubber stamp" is to pay it a compliment it hasn’t earned. A rubber stamp, by definition, has a function. It is a tool of predictable utility, leaving a clean, legible imprint of executive will before being placed back in its tray. What we have under the grandmaster of …
INEC There is a particular kind of comedy that only constitutional lawyers and long-suffering Nigerian voters can truly appreciate. It is the comedy of a document that says one thing with great solemnity, and a government that does the opposite with even greater solemnity, and both parties nodding at each other as though the contradiction …
When we talk about government budgets, the spotlight usually falls on roads, schools, or hospitals. But what about the courts? Who pays for the buildings where justice is served, the cars judges drive, or the staff housing behind the high walls? If you think the answer is simple, think again. Nigeria’s judiciary budget process is …
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