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Articles by Rotimi Fawole

26 Feb 2019
Part of giving the electorate the chance to periodically conduct performance appraisals on political office holders, elections in young democracies like...
12 Feb 2019
It is election week finally, and while a vote for any of the numerous candidates on the ballot will be one that has been validly and lawfully cast, it is my earnest wish that when the tally is taken, the incumbent president will not be declared the winner.
22 Jan 2019
In the movie Groundhog Day, the protagonist is trapped in time and finds himself reliving the same day over and over again. After cynically finding it fun, he inevitably grows bored and frustrated at not being able to move forward. He eventually breaks out of the single day loop, but not until he acquires several…
8 Jan 2019
It was the night of Christmas Eve when the whole house was still and even the drop a pin could be heard. But the bigwigs at the Central Bank of Nigeria and mobile network...
18 Dec 2018
It was reported last week that a Kenyan High Court had ruled that the practice of parading suspects is unconstitutional. It was poignant because in the same week...
21 Nov 2018
A few years ago, while researching on a lady that was about to hire me, I discovered from one of her online profiles that her doctorate...
6 Nov 2018
Omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta - “all things are presumed to have been done rightly.” This maxim is a fancy way of expressing the legal principle known as the presumption of regularity.
17 Oct 2018
Once again, the quality of the legal advice being dispensed at the presidency has come under scrutiny. Following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja...
16 Oct 2018
Once again, the quality of the legal advice being dispensed at the presidency has come under scrutiny. Following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Abuja, striking out a legal challenge to Executive Order 06, the Presidency purported to commence enforcement of the Executive Order with a statement that began as follows –…
25 Sep 2018
The most remarkable thing about the just-concluded elections in Osun State was not the marginally inconclusive win of the PDP in what many considered an APC stronghold...
11 Sep 2018
Discretion is a huge part of administrative law in most national systems across the world. The constitution and other legislation cannot possibly contemplate or provide a remedy for every single situation, so the government’s powers are delegated to agencies to administer laws in a more tailored fashion.
28 Aug 2018
My route to legal ‘columny’ at this newspaper started with a blog running broadly on the same premise, looking at what I thought to be pressing legal issues. Till date, the article that has been read the most is one from 2012 on local governments and radio and television licences. People search for information on…