The judiciary, it’s own enemy (II)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com I conclude this series with an excerpt from a previous piece titled ‘The Judiciary Waiting For Buhari’ written about four years ago (May 19 2015) and a Postscript from another ‘On Justice Onnoghen’ (Feb, 09 2017). This mostly chronicles the revelations of one More...
The judiciary, its own enemy (1)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu dankande2@gmail.com | (08035892325 sms only) Sometime in 2009 a terminally-ill President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua went into a sudden relapse and had to be rushed to a Saudi Arabian More...
Inside Saraki’s ‘diplomatic pouch’
HISTORY OF IMMUNITY Man did not always know diplomacy; much less the need to, or the benefits of, conferring diplomatic immunities or privileges to visitors. In ancient times, emissaries of sovereigns who came to More...
Much ado about secularism (iii)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com It is to appease the sectarian sentiments of the two major religions, Islam and Christianity, that Nigeria enjoys an observer status More...
Much ado about secularism (II)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com Going by the dictionary definition of secularism as ‘concern with temporal, worldly matters’ to the exclusion of More...
Much ado about secularism (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com What better time to talk about state and religion than now. What better time to expose our pretentions to being secular, or our More...
Revisiting the politics of realpolitik
President Buhari and National Assembly THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com It appears that opposition political parties in Nigeria are fast redefining the concept More...
Buhari: To debates or not to debate (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com Virtually everywhere in the world now democratic nations seek to add electoral value to the democratic process by the phenomenon More...
Matters miscellaneous (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com Not all ‘change’ is in the direction of ‘growth’. Or so say development economists. Because some changes are actually in More...
Revisiting ‘Much Ado About ‘True Federalism’
THURSDAY Column WITH Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com People talk about ‘TRUE federalism’ as though there is a particular form of it that is sanctified -and to the extent of which More...