Let’s play a little game of word association. I say “Nigerian Judiciary.” What comes to mind? If you said, “The last hope of the common man,” please collect your prize—a single, slightly melted sweet—from the nearest court registrar’s office. You may have to wait ten years to get it, and the judge might award it …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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