The idea of an impunity carve-out for judicial officers from this power of investigation of the CCB is contrary to the constitution.
Who could have believed that after the U.S. and its allies destroyed Iraq in search of “weapons of mass destruction” and found none, history would repeat itself as a farce?
By combining institutional memory from the previous system with forward-looking reforms, the NRS is building on experience while embracing change.
Every Nigerian lawyer now faces a moral crossroads: remain a custodian of justice or become a bagman of corrupt judges.
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
