Edo State’s CCTV Mandate: When Government Decides Shop Owners Are the New Police Force by Lawson Akhigbe

Shops is now an extension of the state’s security infrastructure. Congratulations! You’ve been promoted from entrepreneur to unpaid auxiliary detective. Pay for the cameras, the electricity (when NEPA remembers you exist), the cloud storage or DVRs, the maintenance, and the inevitable technician who speaks only in riddles. All so the government can claim progress while the actual primary purpose of government remains… whatever it was doing before this.

The Federal Republic of Nigeria v (P&ID) Process & Industrial Developments Ltd [2020] EWHC 2379 (Comm) (04 September 2020) – Full judgement link

The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd [2020] EWHC 2379 (Comm) (04 September 2020) — Read on http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi

ANALYSIS: Nigeria’s budget reforms: Lessons from U.S. Congressional Budget Office by Adeshola Komolafe

Nigeria’s Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo signed the nation’s Appropriations Bill into Law on June 12, 2017, well over five months into the 2017 financial year. What this means is that for over five months, the government was spending funds that were not appropriated.While this misnomer is not new to Nigerians, it runs contrary to the …