What appears easy in the short term compounds disaster in the long term.
A country in a life-and-death struggle with insecurity could ill have afforded such waste of experience and expertise.
I’ve often joked that even if you beheaded El-Rufai and minced his skull, his tongue would still be wagging. Those who have been in his crosshairs might agree.
An executive order is an instrument through which the president exercises constitutional power. It is not legislation. It cannot amend legislation.
Though the seventy-something old men use chaos as strategy and strategy as chaos in interchangeable ways, the distinction is not between chaos and strategy.
The appointment of judges in Nigeria has become something akin to a life-and-death contest
Balewa was right. But in hindsight, did Achebe’s lamentation suggest that the prime minister was also naïve?
Do Nigerian political leaders increase confidence in the electoral system? Or do they deepen suspicion?
A fortunate inconvenience is a moment when an action designed for advantage produces the opposite effect.
One can only hope that the present government of Abia state will show zero-tolerance for this network criminality.
