Wig-wearing British barristers gather outside Parliament in London in September 2022. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images) Updated guidelines allow more lawyers to dispense with the curly horsehair wigs, while traditionalists fear a loss of courtroom decorum. LONDON — The British legal system isn’t abandoning its 300-year tradition of curly white wigs just yet, but it is making …
If Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry Kissinger and a Lagos “area boy” ever decided to write a joint textbook on 21st-century diplomacy, they would still struggle to match the creative foreign policy gymnastics of Donald Josephine Trump. Forget traditional diplomacy; Trump introduced us to a new school of statecraft: “The Diplomacy of the Asylum.” A style where …
(A Satirical National Peacekeeping Manual) 🧖🏾♂️ INTRODUCTION Nigeria doesn’t solve problems — it manages them like an overworked HR manager in a toxic workplace: Nobody gets fired Everybody gets queried And we all gather for a “peace meeting” that creates more problems than it solved So here is the Face-Saving Formula that will allow the Federal …
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If Nigerian jurisprudence had a Netflix category, the State vs Nnamdi Kanu series would sit in “Legal Thriller – Comedy – Seasonal Madness – Viewer Discretion Advised.” Because at this point, even the Constitution is clutching its sections like a wrapper and saying, “Somebody should hold me before I slap somebody here!” Let’s recap the …
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Former Governor Obaseki Oba of Benin, Ewuare II Current Governor Monday Okpebholo The MOWAA project has become a political football, and its fate is heavily influenced by the personalities and power dynamics between these three men. Godwin Obaseki (Former Governor): The "Technocratic" Visionary with a Political Blind Spot · The Vision and The Drive: Obaseki …
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