It is goldmine season for Nigerian lawyers, meal time, boom time as every election season has been, but now more than ever. Every electoral process, pre- during, and after – often provides opportunities for aggrieved politicians to take their disputes … Read the rest
The stoning to death of Deborah Samuel, a student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, over alleged blasphemy is a timely reminder that retail religious extremism is very much alive and kicking in northern Nigeria. It has been … Read the rest
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has refused to announce its decision on zoning it’s party’s presidential ticket to the South because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may pick former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate.
Reliable sources within … Read the rest
The current presidential election process in Nigeria, the sixth, since the return to democratic rule in 1999, is like no other before it. It is the most contested, the most controversial, and the most demonstrative of the fault lines, and … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
I wrote a tongue-in-cheek, intentionally sarcastic status update yesterday that I won’t be surprised of the INEC chairman gets an APC presidential nomination form while still an INEC chairman given the norm-bending absurdities that we’ve been seeing … Read the rest
Where should the next president come from? In the unwritten code that guides matters of national politics in Nigeria, the answer is obvious. A northerner will have been president for eight years by 2023 and it is naturally expected that … Read the rest
“My brother, when are you declaring for President?”
“Which president? I am already a president in my own right. I am the president of my house.”
“That is not the kind of President I am talking about. I mean a … Read the rest
Bukola Saraki
By Farooq Kperogi
Bukola Saraki is one of the strongest contenders for PDP’s presidential nomination. On paper, his identity agnosticism (i.e., his capacity to be simultaneously a northerner and a southerner) is a great selling point, but he is, in … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
There is an unexampled swarming of the presidential nomination arena by a motley crowd of wannabes. One argument for this is that Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo have been such dreadful catastrophes as “president” and “vice president” … Read the rest
Chrisland
The Lagos State Government following reports of an alleged “rape incident” involving an 11-year old female student of Chrisland Schools Lagos, and male pupils of the school, during a trip to the World School Games in Dubai (March 10 -13, … Read the rest
