If you think the availability or not of General Buhari’s certificates are the main issue in Nigeria’s electoral process, then you need to get your head out of that placard-carrying ass. There are graver issues at stake, with terrible possibilities for Nigeria’s future. Now is the time for us—as citizens—to start scrutinising the serious issues, instead … Continue reading
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ON CERTIFICATED PRESIDENTS | A Short Legal Study by Ayo Sogunro
A persistently irritating headline in Nigeria’s political news today rotates around the high school certification or otherwise of General Muhammad Buhari. This is not only a distraction from the relevant issues and questions, but it is also a debate brought about by a totally arbitrary and irrelevant insertion during the drafting of the 1999 Constitution. … Continue reading
PERMANENT VOTERS’ CRAZE | by Ayo Sogunro
One night, about two months ago, I was driving to my then Akoka home through the University of Lagos compound when I stopped to give an old woman a lift from the back gate into the main campus. Ordinarily, I don’t stop on Lagos roads to give lifts to total strangers, but the woman had … Continue reading
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