Category: Legal
Your Money, Your Power: Why Lagos’ Tax Grab Threatens Nigerians’ Freedom
30 Jan 2026
The foundation of any thriving economy is not the government treasury — it’s the disposable income of the people. Yet, too often, governments forget this simple truth. Disposable income is what allows ordinary citizens to save, invest, and spend, creating a cycle of economic growth that benefits everyone. Without it, even the richest government treasury […]
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A State of Emergency Is Not a Presidential Blank Cheque
16 Jan 2026
A declaration of a state of emergency under Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution does not confer unlimited or inherent powers on the President. It merely permits the President to formally declare that extraordinary circumstances exist; it does not authorise extraordinary actions in the absence of legislation. Section 305 is an enabling, not a substantive, […]
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Knowing Where We Are Coming From: A Case Against Retreating to Biafra
13 Jan 2026
I have been told—derisively—that anyone who does not know where he is coming from cannot know where he is going. The implication is that my call for Igbos to shelve the Biafran project in favour of a pan-Nigerian struggle for good governance is shallow and ahistorical. I disagree, and history itself disagrees. Let us be […]
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JUDICIAL LEGITIMIZATION OF ELECTION FRAUD
20 Sep 2025
I have been singing this like a song for so long. Our judiciary needs to rethink the electoral justice that they deliver or else something is bound to give way someday. I hold the firm view that the judiciary is unfortunately de-legitimizing itself before the people with its recent decisions in a false belief in […]
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JONATHAN IS NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN IN 2025
17 Aug 2025
In 2018, the Fourth Amendment to the 1999 Constitution was enacted into law with the introduction of section 137(3) which reads as follows: “A person who was sworn in to complete the term for which another person was elected as President shall not be elected to such office for more than a single term.” […]
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JUDICIAL FRAUD
27 Jun 2025
It is good that the Lagos State Government has come out to say that it will investigate the circumstances of the demolition of property that Peter Obi claims to have belonged to his brother’s company for over 15 years. It turned out that the land is in Ikeja GRA in Lagos, not FESTAC, like I […]
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ORJI UZOR KALU – POSTER BOY OF NIGERIAN JUDICIAL MIRACLES
30 May 2025
Orji Uzor Kalu has managed to dribble past the judiciary several times on the question of his conviction and sentence to jail for ten years for fraud to emerge a Senator and even contest the seat of Senate President
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DID YOU SAY, TINUBU’S TWO YEARS IN OFFICE
30 May 2025
Nigeria is in full throttle down the road to 31st December, 1983, when the military stepped in to terminate the quixotic Government of Shehu Shagari. The starting point is the same impatience not to proceed to a second election when The constitutional condition for winning on the first ballot was not satisfied.
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Glitch in JAMB CBT Could be a Cybercrime
20 May 2025
I have just read the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 again. It contains so many crimes or offences relating to the obtaining and management of computer data and operation of computer networks. They are so many that it is difficult to believe that even a single crime was not committed in the JAMB computer […]
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