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31 March
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Leadership recruitment: Missing anchor in national development

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The above title is chosen from the Annual Pre-Ramadan Lecture of the University of Lagos Muslim Alumni Association held a few days ago, precisely on March 27, 2022, at the University of Lagos Auditorium. There is no time more apt than now to interrogate the subject. This is particularly so as we inch towards the general election in the country. The consensus of opinion (not as in the ‘consensus’ of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress as shown in the party’s recently concluded convention) is that the country is certainly unwell. The source of the ailment or the trigger of...

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24 March
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LETTER TO THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (Part 2)

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Most times, they even invite the nominees with specific entreaties that they have assignments for them. This assignment is, most times, to compromise electoral processes in favour of their political parties or tendencies. This is no news in our climes.   My first admonition and appeal to these appointees into the Commission is to remember the oaths they have taken in terms of independence and impartiality. For those with pedigree, they must let this count for something but even if you, as an appointee of the politicians into the Commission lack pedigree, remember your reputation and protect same. Remember always the son...

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17 March
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Letter to Independent National Electoral Commission (1)

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (the Commission) is the body constitutionally saddled with the responsibility of conducting elections to all political offices at all levels of government in Nigeria, except the local government elections in the states. The Commission is so named as such due to the compelling necessity for it to be truly independent. It is expected to be an impartial body in the discharge of its responsibilities, this being the reason for the emphasis of independence in the description of the appellation. Since the Commission cannot act, on its own, the impartiality mandated by the name and the...

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10 March
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Constitution amendment and citizens’ expectations (2)

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Let me start by stating that the fundamental objectives are like the advertised manifesto of the government at all levels in Nigeria. They are promises made to the citizens by the state.   The only significant difference in this case is that the promises made are entrenched in a fundamental document known as the grundnorm by lawyers. The grundnorm is the supreme law or the document against which all other rules and regulations that govern us are tested. It is a binding document on all authorities and citizens. In some instances, those entitlements contained in the fundamental objectives as I would prefer...

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03 March
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Constitution amendment and citizens’ expectations

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As the National Assembly concludes the constitution amendment process triggered some few months ago, citizens’ expectations that were hitherto high would seem to have been dampened with the release of over 60 clauses slated for amendment without that affecting their main source of survival, which is the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy contained in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. It is not my intention to start an x-ray of the over 60 clauses proposed for amendment, but simply to focus on the elephant in the house that was not touched...

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24 February
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Political parties and primaries

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Political parties in Nigeria are the only constitutionally recognized vessels for vying for political offices.  This shows the rationale behind the continuous struggle that goes on in the various political parties. There is no alternative for the aspirants than this. Strangely, when these agitations take place, they should and must not be mistaken for interest in good governance of the country but simply struggle for power among the ignoble gladiators. The most virulent periods in the various political parties are usually during the election of the members of the executive arm of the party that will conduct the party primaries...

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17 February
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Proliferation of Law School campuses

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That political satire, “Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again,” by Professor Ola Rotimi, produced in 1977, is currently being acted in Nigeria’s legislative chambers as the play captures the emerging scenario and the unfolding events in the academic space. When, on the 2nd day of December, 2021, I penned the piece, “Tertiary Education and the Future of Nigeria: Another Perspective!” (https://www.sunnewsonline.com/tertiary-education-and-the-future-of-nigeria-another-perspective) and recently on the 20th day of January, 2022, I wrote the piece published under the title “NUC: Please Save the Nation” (https://www.sunnewsonline.com/nuc-please-save-the-nation) little did I realise that I was not only envisaging another calamitous event by our legislators...

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10 February
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Letter to Nigerian electorate (2)

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In the process of staying in the open air overnight, these marketmen and women are exposed not only to inclement weather but also to all manner of insect bites, including mosquitoes, which make them vulnerable to catching cold, pneumonia, malaria and other ailments. Unfortunately, their oppressors are never available after the election to cater for them, with the ultimate consequential effect of death in some instances.   This comes as the aftermath of the deprivation of their democratic right of free choice. Because they need to survive, they succumb to this demand of their oppressors and lose their lives in the process....

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03 February
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Letter to Nigerian electorate (1)

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The rationale behind this letter is essentially to expose the fraud and iniquities perpetrated by politicians on the people, wittingly and unwittingly aided by the electorate through their actions and inactions, with a view to remedying the ills before the next general election. The class of Nigerians called the electorate is the most difficult and critical to the Nigerian democratic experiment. You wonder who they are? The electorate are the Nigerians who are eligible to cast votes in each successive general election. They are presumably those citizens of Nigeria that have satisfied the constitutional requirements of competence to vote and...

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20 January
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NUC: please, save the nation

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When, a few weeks ago, on December 2, 2021, I wrote on the state of our tertiary institutions, “Tertiary education and the future of Nigeria: Another perspective (https://www.sunnewsonline.com/tertiary-education-and-the-future-of-nigeria-another-perspective)”, particularly the universities, pursuant to the convocation lecture delivered by learned silk, Mallam Yusuf Alli, SAN, little did I know that I would shortly be visiting and interrogating the subject again. This time around, the major difference is specifically my appeal to the National Universities Commission (the Commission), the body responsible for the licensing of the Nigerian universities and, presumably, setting the right  standard for the operations and outputs of the universities,...

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