The Nigerian contraption has remained a classical case of ‘the more you look, the more you see’. As presently constituted, Nigeria is no doubt a political invention that is in urgent need of divine intervention. The unwilling union of the forcefully amalgamated southern and northern protectorates has continued to trudge on and secure validation at any major turn while shying away from the reality of Fulani control and domination.
An election cycle has just ended and a number of southerners in Nigeria are in a jubilant mood about the outcome that saw the emergence of a Yoruba man from the …
Time and time again, attempting to solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it has always proven to be delusional and a pure waste of time. Against sound logic and reasoning, many Nigerians over the weekend validated the same system that they are desirous of changing thereby limiting themselves in the process and one can only question the rationale behind their logic.
Over the past two decades, many critically-minded people have continuously posited that the major issue confronting the Nigerian state is the fraudulent 1999 constitution. This constitution which came with an electoral philosophy dedicated to …
By this weekend, most Nigerians have concluded plans to troop out en-masse to endorse the flawed system that has held down their country for over six decades. By voting in the elections on the 25th of February with Nigeria as presently constituted, Nigerians will simply be renewing their contracts with the slave master which is the 1999 constitution. This article is not to cast aspersions on these Nigerians who have chosen that path to redemption but to remind them that their decision is apparently not the best on the cards.
For a vast majority of Nigerians, the past seven …
In sane countries, the process of writing and adopting constitutions is entirely people-centered. This is because not only will the citizens be guided by it, it will also determine how their lives are shaped.
In Nigeria, the story is different and, as expected, in the negative.
The country’s present constitution was written by ‘strong men’ who did nothing but dethrone civilian governments while declaring themselves lords over the hapless citizens through criminal decrees. How can a country ever witness any iota of progress under such wickedness enshrined into a constitution?
Those who framed the 1999 constitution never acted in the …
The speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has asserted that the vote of every member of the House must count as the parliament prepares to hold votes on bills that seeks to amend the 1999 Constitution.
Accordingly section 9 of the Constitution, any bill seeking to amend the constitution must secure the vote of two-thirds which is 240 of the 360 members of the House to be approved.
Before now, voting on others issues has been by voice with the members shouting ‘ayes’ or ‘nays’.
However, at the plenary, Gbajabiamila asked members to test-run the electronic voting …
Cuomo on NBC’s Today Show and CNN said Trump was flat-out wrong when he said he can overrule state leaders in determining when to reopen businesses and relax social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“I don’t know what the president is talking about, frankly,” Mr. Cuomo said on NBC’s “Today” show.
“We don’t have a king in the United States, we have …
South Sudan’s transitional legislative assembly has passed key amendments to the Constitution, allowing the country to return to 10 states.
The assembly, which is supposed to act as Parliament for the next 30 months, made changes to the supreme law.
This also allows the administration of the three additional areas carved out of the states to be run by appointed officers, but in a hierarchical format where local state governors will have a say.
The move was the necessary legal framework the country needed to make changes to its existing regional administrative units, and to accommodate the demands of
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has described as provocative and unacceptable, the recent advocacy for more sharia contents in the constitution by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammed.
CAN, which immediately demanded Muhammed’s removal, because he was religiously compromised and no longer trustworthy in the dispensation of justice, also pointed out that the president’s tilted appointment in favour of a certain religion was indicative of alleged Islamisation agenda of the administration.
A statement by the CAN President, His Eminence, Rev Dr. Samson Ayokunle, issued by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant (Media & …
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi State, Charles Oko Enya, has approached a Federal High Court, Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, asking it to create room for third term for the president and governors, even as President Muhammadu Buhari had said he has no plans to stay longer than May 29, 2023.
Enya is asking the court to compel the National Assembly to immediate effect a constitutional amendment to alter or totally expunge section 137(1) (b) and 182 (1) (b) of the 1999 constitution (as amended).
Sections 137(1) (b) and 182(1) (b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended …
Chileans are to vote on whether they want a new constitution in a referendum in April next year, representatives of the conservative government coalition and the opposition said.
The text of a new constitution is then to be put to the voters in another plebiscite.
“We want a peaceful and constructive way out of the crisis,’’ Senate President Jaime Quintana asserted.
“We will for the first time have a 100 per cent democratic constitution.’’
Section 188 (8): “Where the panel reports to the House of Assembly that the allegation has not been proved, no further proceedings shall be taken in respect of the matter”
Amid rising criticism over perceived illegal removal of his predecessor, Mr. Simon Achuba, from office, former Chief of Staff to Kogi State governor, Mr. Edward Onoja, yesterday took oath of office as the new deputy governor of the state.
He was sworn in by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Nasiru Ajanah, who had earlier set up a committee that cleared Achuba of allegations of gross misconduct levelled …
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has said that Jubril Al-Sudani, Buhari’s Impostor did violate the constitution of Nigeria by suspending Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Atiku said by doing so, that Jubril has ridiculed the Nigerian constitution by “crossing the immutable line that divides the Executive from the Judiciary.”
